Global agriculture is dominated by a handful of species that currently supply a huge
proportion of our food and feed. It additionally faces the massive challenge of providing food …

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

Crop domestication provided the calories that fueled the rise of civilization,,. For many crop
species, domestication was accompanied by the evolution of weedy crop relatives, which …

The evolution of problematic plants, both weeds and invasives, is a topic of increasing
interest. Plants that have evolved from domesticated ancestors have certain advantages for …

Ongoing increases in the human population necessitate that rice will continue to be a critical
aspect of food security for the twenty-first century. While production must increase in the …

Here, we review recent progress in genetic and genomic studies of the diversity of Oryza
species. In recent years, unlocking the genetic diversity of Oryza species has provided …

Weeds are among the greatest pests of agriculture, causing billions of dollars in crop losses
each year. As crop field management practices have changed over the past 12 000 years …

De-domestication or feralization is an interesting phenomenon in crops and livestock.
Previously, evidence for crop de-domestication was based mainly on studies using …

The domestication history of rice remains controversial, with multiple studies reaching
different conclusions regarding its origin (s). These studies have generally assumed that …

Weedy rice refers to the unwanted plants of the genus Oryza that have some undesirable
agronomic traits and pose a major threat to sustainable rice production worldwide …