The world's staple food crops, and other food crops that optimize human nutrition, suffer from
global virus disease pandemics and epidemics that greatly diminish their yields and/or …

Working with indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) is vital for inclusive assessments of
nature and nature's linkages with people. Indigenous peoples' concepts about what …

The number of alien plants escaping from cultivation into native ecosystems is increasing
steadily. We provide an overview of the historical, contemporary and potential future roles of …

It is difficult to overstate the cultural and biological impacts that the domestication of plants
and animals has had on our species. Fundamental questions regarding where, when, and …

The importance of seed provisioning in food security and nutrition, agricultural development
and rural livelihoods, and agrobiodiversity and germplasm conservation is well accepted by …

Abstract Sweetpotato [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.] is a globally important staple food crop,
especially for sub-Saharan Africa. Agronomic improvement of sweetpotato has lagged …

The possibility of voyaging contact between prehistoric Polynesian and Native American
populations has long intrigued researchers. Proponents have pointed to the existence of …

The sweet potato is one of the world's most widely consumed crops, yet its evolutionary
history is poorly understood. In this paper, we present a comprehensive phylogenetic study …

Sweet potato (SP; Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam) is an edible tuber native to America and the
sixth most important food crop worldwide. China leads its production in a global market of …

Background Vegetatively propagated crops are globally significant in terms of current
agricultural production, as well as for understanding the long-term history of early agriculture …