The completion of reference genome sequences for many important crops and the ability to
perform high-throughput resequencing are providing opportunities for improving our …

Association mapping, a high-resolution method for mapping quantitative trait loci based on
linkage disequilibrium, holds great promise for the dissection of complex genetic traits. The …

As early farming spread from the Fertile Crescent in the Near East around 10,000 years
before the present, domesticated crops encountered considerable ecological and …

Background Archaeobotany, the study of plant remains from sites of ancient human activity,
provides data for studying the initial evolution of domesticated plants. An important …

Soybean has undergone several genetic bottlenecks. These include domestication in Asia
to produce numerous Asian landraces, introduction of relatively few landraces to North …

Despite the fundamental role of plant domestication in human history and the critical
importance of a relatively small number of crop plants to modern societies, we still know little …

Modern agriculture and conventional breeding and the liberal use of high inputs has
resulted in the loss of genetic diversity and the stagnation of yields in cereals in less …

Compared to the conventional linkage mapping, linkage disequilibrium (LD)‐mapping,
using the nonrandom associations of loci in haplotypes, is a powerful high‐resolution …

Cereal agriculture originated with the domestication of barley and early forms of wheat in the
Fertile Crescent. There has long been speculation that barley was domesticated more than …

Despite its status as one of the world's major crops, linkage disequilibrium (LD) patterns
have not been systematically characterized across the genome of Asian rice (Oryza sativa) …