Domesticated plants have long served as excellent models for studying evolution. Many
genes and mutations underlying important domestication traits have been identified, and …

Over two thousand plant species have been modified morphologically through cultivation
and human use. Here, we review three aspects of crop domestication that are currently …

The “cost of domestication” hypothesis posits that the process of domesticating wild species
can result in an increase in the number, frequency, and/or proportion of deleterious genetic …

Domestication has helped to understand evolution. We argue that, vice versa, novel insights
into evolutionary principles could provide deeper insights into domestication. Molecular …

Plant domestication modifies a wild species genetically for human use. Among thousands of
domesticated plants, a major distinction is the difference between annual and perennial life …

Domesticated crops show a reduced level of diversity that is commonly attributed to the
“domestication bottleneck”; a drastic reduction in the population size associated with …

Highlights•Progress in genomics has greatly impacted research approaches in crop
evolution.•There is a more detailed view of the effect of domestication on genetic diversity …

Domesticated plants and animals played crucial roles as models for evolutionary change by
means of natural selection and for establishing the rules of inheritance, originally proposed …

Domestication is a multifaceted evolutionary process, involving changes in individual genes,
genetic interactions, and emergent phenotypes. There has been extensive discussion of the …

This article attempts to summarize the current knowledge on plant domestication on the
basis of recent genome sequencing. To this end, several topics are explored, including (a) …