The genomic era revolutionized evolutionary biology. The enigma of genotypic-phenotypic
diversity and biodiversity evolution of genes, genomes, phenomes, and biomes, reviewed …

Food security depends on the ability of staple crops to tolerate new abiotic and biotic
pressures. Wheat, barley, and other small grains face substantial yield losses under all …

Since the first edition of this book published in 2005, there has been an immense amount of
new and fascinating work on the history, ecology, and evolution of the Mediterranean flora …

Biodiversity refers to variation within the living world, while genetic diversity represents the
heritable variation within and between populations of organisms, and in the context of this …

The study of variability within species is important to all biologists who use genetic markers.
Since the discovery of molecular variability among normal individuals, data have been …

The subject is reviewed under the following headings: cultivated barley: origins and
domestication; origin, cytotaxonomy and evolution of wild barley; the genetic basis of …

This book is about the contribution to evolutionary theory and agricultural technology of one
of humankind's most dramatic imitations of the evolu tionary process, namely crop …

The current alarming global crisis and extinction of biodiversity affect negatively the planet's
biosphere. Conservation of biodiversity is one attempt to alleviate the pending extinction of …

Genetic diversity in random amplified polymorphic DNAs (RAPDs) was studied in 110
genotypes of the tetraploid wild progenitor of wheat, Triticum dicoccoides, from 11 …

Allozyme variation in the tetraploid wild emmer wheat, Triticum dicoccoides, the progenitor
of all cultivated wheats, was studied for the proteins encoded by 42 gene loci in 1815 plants …