As a major event in human civilization, wild plants were successfully domesticated to be
crops, largely owing to continuing artificial selection. Here, we summarize new discoveries …

Highlights•Efficient genome editing (GE) accelerates the domestication of crop wild
relatives.•New crops can be rapidly created to withstand drought, flooding, and soil …

We elucidate grapevine evolution and domestication histories with 3525 cultivated and wild
accessions worldwide. In the Pleistocene, harsh climate drove the separation of wild grape …

Plant life defines the environments to which animals adapt and provides the basis of food
webs. This was equally true for hunter-gatherer economies of ancestral humans, yet through …

Abstract Background Persian walnut, Juglans regia, occurs naturally from Greece to western
China, while its closest relative, the iron walnut, Juglans sigillata, is endemic in southwest …

The clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/associated protein
9 system (Cas9) has been used at length to optimize multiple aspects of germplasm …

Major crops are all survivors of domestication bottlenecks. Studies have focused on the
genetic loci related to the domestication syndrome, while the contribution of ancient …

Domestication can be considered a specialized mutualism in which a domesticator exerts
control over the reproduction or propagation (fitness) of a domesticated species to gain …

As the last great ice sheets were retreating and the Pleistocene Epoch was ending,
humanity began an epic journey. For hundreds of thousands of years, our ancestors had …

Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) became a globally dominant crop after incorporating the D
genome from the donor species Aegilops tauschii, but the evolutionary history that shaped …