Flowering plants exhibit two principal life-history strategies: annuality (living and
reproducing in one year) and perenniality (living more than one year). The advantages of …

• Premise of the study: Archaeological and genetic analyses of seed‐propagated annual
crops have greatly advanced our understanding of plant domestication and evolution …

Understanding the causes and limits of population divergence in phenotypic traits is a
fundamental aim of evolutionary biology, with the potential to yield predictions of adaptation …

Most adaptive traits are controlled by large number of genes that may all together be the
targets of selection. Adaptation may thus involve multiple but not necessarily substantial …

Mating in seed plants arises from interactions between plant traits and the environmental
and demographic context in which individuals reside. These interactions commonly cause …

Inbreeding is common in plants and can have considerable effects on population viability,
because of inbreeding depression. Understanding what determines the magnitude of …

Climate change will lead to loss of range for many species, and thus to loss of genetic
diversity crucial for their long-term persistence. We analysed range-wide genetic diversity …

Evaluating the factors that drive patterns of population differentiation in plants is critical for
understanding several biological processes such as local adaptation and incipient …

Broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) is one of the world's oldest cultivated cereals, with
several lines of recent evidence indicating that it was grown in northern China from at least …

Baker's Law predicts uniparental reproduction will facilitate colonization success in novel
habitats. While evidence supports this prediction among colonizing plants and animals, few …