Domestication of plants and animals is the major factor underlying human civilization and is
a gigantic evolutionary experiment of adaptation and speciation, generating incipient …

Crop grasses were among the first plants to be domesticated c. 12 000 yr ago, and they still
represent the main staple crops for humans. During domestication, as did many other crops …

Introgression is a potential source of beneficial genetic diversity. The contribution of
introgression to adaptive evolution and improvement of wheat as it was disseminated …

The availability of information on the genetic diversity and population structure in wheat
(Triticum aestivum L.) breeding lines will help wheat breeders to better use their genetic …

Knowledge about the origins and evolution of crop species represents an important
prerequisite for efficient conservation and use of existing plant materials. This study was …

We have studied the nucleotide diversity of common bean, P haseolus vulgaris, which is
characterized by two independent domestications in two geographically distinct areas …

We propose a strategy for implementing genomic selection in plant breeding programs for
developing inbred lines that reorganizes traditional breeding programs into two distinct …

Several demographic and selective events occurred during the domestication of wheat from
the allotetraploid wild emmer (Triticum turgidum ssp. dicoccoides). Cultivated wheat has …

Domesticated Asian rice (Oryza sativa) is one of the oldest domesticated crop species in the
world, having fed more people than any other plant in human history. We report the patterns …

In spite of more than 200 years of botanical exploration of the Orient, resulting in many
herbaria and germplasm collections, sequence data, and transferred alleles, our knowledge …