Although the first ancient DNA molecules were extracted more than three decades ago, the
first ancient nuclear genomes could only be characterized after high-throughput sequencing …

Our agricultural systems are now in urgent need to secure food for a growing world
population. To meet this challenge, we need a better characterization of plant genetic and …

Deep knowledge of crop biodiversity is essential to improving global food security. Despite
bread wheat serving as a keystone crop worldwide, the population history of bread wheat …

The evidence from ancient crops over the past decade challenges some of our most basic
assumptions about the process of domestication. The emergence of crops has been viewed …

Plant life defines the environments to which animals adapt and provides the basis of food
webs. This was equally true for hunter-gatherer economies of ancestral humans, yet through …

Background Vegetatively propagated crops are globally significant in terms of current
agricultural production, as well as for understanding the long-term history of early agriculture …

Triticeae, the wheatgrass tribe, includes several major cereal crops and their wild relatives.
Major crops within the Triticeae are wheat, barley and rye which are important for human …

Background Plant architecture associated with increased grain yield and adaptation to the
local environments is selected during wheat (Triticum aestivum) breeding. The internode …

In 1993, a passionate and provocative call to arms urged cereal researchers to consider the
taxon they study as a single genetic system and collaborate with each other. Since then, that …

Wheat is the second largest food crop with a very good breeding system and pedigree
record in China. Investigating the genomic footprints of wheat cultivars will unveil potential …