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 …

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

Grain size is a major determinant of grain yield in cereal crops. qSW5/GW5, which exerts the
greatest effect on rice grain width and weight, was fine-mapped to a 2,263-bp/21-kb …

Rice is sensitive to cold and can be grown only in certain climate zones. Human selection of
japonica rice has extended its growth zone to regions with lower temperature, while the …

The utilization of natural genetic variation greatly contributes to improvement of important
agronomic traits in crops. Understanding the genetic basis for natural variation of grain size …

Uncovering the genetic basis of agronomic traits in crop landraces that have adapted to
various agro-climatic conditions is important to world food security. Here we have …

Rice is a staple crop that has undergone substantial phenotypic and physiological changes
during domestication. Here we resequenced the genomes of 40 cultivated accessions …

In rice grains, the Waxy (Wx) gene is responsible for the synthesis of amylose, the most
important determinant for eating and cooking quality. The effects of several Wx alleles on …

We gathered genomic data from grapes (Vitis vinifera ssp. vinifera), a clonally propagated
perennial crop, to address three ongoing mysteries about plant domestication. The first is the …

We report a large-scale analysis of the patterns of genome-wide genetic variation in
soybeans. We re-sequenced a total of 17 wild and 14 cultivated soybean genomes to an …