[HTML][HTML] Land use and ecological change: A 12,000-year history

EC Ellis - Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Human use of land has been transforming Earth's ecology for millennia. From hunting and
foraging to burning the land to farming to industrial agriculture, increasingly intensive human …

Threats posed by the fungal kingdom to humans, wildlife, and agriculture

MC Fisher, SJ Gurr, CA Cuomo, DS Blehert, H Jin… - MBio, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
The fungal kingdom includes at least 6 million eukaryotic species and is remarkable with
respect to its profound impact on global health, biodiversity, ecology, agriculture …

Ecological consequences of human niche construction: Examining long-term anthropogenic shaping of global species distributions

NL Boivin, MA Zeder, DQ Fuller… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
The exhibition of increasingly intensive and complex niche construction behaviors through
time is a key feature of human evolution, culminating in the advanced capacity for ecosystem …

Increasing homogeneity in global food supplies and the implications for food security

CK Khoury, AD Bjorkman… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
The narrowing of diversity in crop species contributing to the world's food supplies has been
considered a potential threat to food security. However, changes in this diversity have not …

Phylogeny and genetic diversity of the banana Fusarium wilt pathogen Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense in the Indonesian centre of origin

N Maryani, L Lombard, YS Poerba… - Studies in …, 2019 - ingentaconnect.com
Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense (Foc), the causal agent of Fusarium wilt or Panama
disease on banana, is one of the major constraints in banana production worldwide …

Management of Fusarium wilt of banana: A review with special reference to tropical race 4

RC Ploetz - Crop Protection, 2015 - Elsevier
Banana (Musa spp.) is an important cash and food crop in the tropics and subtropics.
Fusarium wilt, which is also known as Panama disease, is caused by Fusarium oxysporum f …

CRISPR/Cas9-mediated efficient editing in phytoene desaturase (PDS) demonstrates precise manipulation in banana cv. Rasthali genome

N Kaur, A Alok, null Shivani, N Kaur, P Pandey… - Functional & integrative …, 2018 - Springer
The clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-
associated protein 9 (Cas9) has been reported for precise genome modification in many …

[HTML][HTML] Farmer seed networks make a limited contribution to agriculture? Four common misconceptions

OT Coomes, SJ McGuire, E Garine, S Caillon, D McKey… - Food Policy, 2015 - Elsevier
The importance of seed provisioning in food security and nutrition, agricultural development
and rural livelihoods, and agrobiodiversity and germplasm conservation is well accepted by …

Convergent evolution and parallelism in plant domestication revealed by an expanding archaeological record

DQ Fuller, T Denham, M Arroyo-Kalin… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Recent increases in archaeobotanical evidence offer insights into the processes of plant
domestication and agricultural origins, which evolved in parallel in several world regions …

[HTML][HTML] The banana (Musa acuminata) genome and the evolution of monocotyledonous plants

A D'hont, F Denoeud, JM Aury, FC Baurens, F Carreel… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Abstract Bananas (Musa spp.), including dessert and cooking types, are giant perennial
monocotyledonous herbs of the order Zingiberales, a sister group to the well-studied Poales …