Background Unravelling domestication processes is crucial for understanding how species
respond to anthropogenic pressures, forecasting crop responses to future global changes …

Faced with an accelerating rate of environmental change and the associated need for a
more sustainable, low-input agriculture, the urgent new challenge for crop science is to find …

Hutchinson's n‐dimensional hypervolume concept for the interpretation of niches as
geometric shapes has provided a foundation for research across different fields of ecology …

Root and rhizosphere microbial communities can affect plant health, but it remains
undetermined how plant domestication may influence these bacterial and fungal …

The Neolithic Revolution narrative associates early-mid Holocene domestications with the
development of agriculture that fueled the rise of late Holocene civilizations. This narrative …

For millennia, humans have imposed strong selection on domesticated crops, resulting in
drastically altered crop phenotypes compared with wild ancestors. Crop yields have …

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 …

With the expansion of the green products market and the worldwide policies and strategies
directed toward a green revolution and ecological transition, the demand for innovative …

Formerly domesticated organisms and artificially selected genes often escape controlled
cultivation, but their subsequent evolution is not well studied. In this review, we examine …

The effect of domestication and modern breeding on aboveground traits in maize (Zea
mays) has been well-characterized, but the impact on root systems and the rhizosphere …