As climate change leads to drier and warmer conditions in semi-arid regions, growing
resource-intensive C3 and C4 crops will become more challenging. Such crops will be …

Abstract Background and Scope Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) is an intriguing
physiological adaptation in plants that are widespread throughout many ecosystems …

Winner of the 2005 Klinger Book Award Presented by The Society for Economic Botany.
Florida Ethnobotany provides a cross-cultural examination of how the state s native plants …

Ethnobotany is a multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinary research field concerned with the study
of interactions between people and plants throughout time and different cultural and …

Background Most reports of domesticated plants that involve a domestication gradient or
inter-specific hybridization in Mexico have focused on those used as food. This study …

Aunque los magueyes pulqueros (género Agave) tienen una función importante en el
desarrollo de las poblaciones humanas en Mesoamérica, el estudio de su humanización es …

Abstract Background and Aims Artificial selection, the main driving force of domestication,
depends on human perception of intraspecific variation and operates through management …

The genetic diversity in forty-nine Agave tequilana Weber var. Azul accessions from different
regions of the Appellation of Origin Tequila, and eighteen Agave angustifolia Haw. var …

The Agave angustifolia complex, distributed from Mexico to Costa Rica, comprises four
species and five varieties, including three species used for mescal production. The complex …

Isozymatic variation and phylogenetic relationships among extant heneque´ n (Agave
fourcroydes) germplasm and wild populations of its ancestor A. angustifolia in the Yucatan …