Domestication is a good model for the study of evolutionary processes because of the recent
evolution of crop species (< 12,000 years ago), the key role of selection in their origins, and …

Human selection during crop domestication has resulted in remarkable transformations of
plant phenotypes, providing a window into the genetic basis of morphological evolution …

Domestication of crop plants had effects on human lifestyle and agriculture. However, little is
known about the underlying molecular mechanisms accompanying the changes in fruit …

Foxtail millet is one of the oldest domesticated diploid C4 Panicoid crops having a
comparatively small genome size of approximately 515 Mb, short life cycle, and inbreeding …

Phenotypic variation has been manipulated by humans during crop domestication, which
occurred primarily between 3000 and 10000 years ago in the various centers of origin …

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

Since the time of Darwin, biologists have understood the promise of crop plants and their
wild relatives for providing insight into the mechanisms of phenotypic evolution. The intense …

Suppression of seed shattering was a key step during crop domestication that we have
previously suggested to be convergent among independent cereal lineages. Positional …

We report the first study on the genetic control of flowering in Setaria, a panicoid grass
closely related to switchgrass, and in the same subfamily as maize and sorghum. A …

Global food demand, climatic variability and reduced land availability are driving the need
for domestication of new crop species. The accelerated domestication of a rice-like …