Independent domestication of sorghum, rice, and maize involved convergent selection for
large seeds, reduced disarticulation of the mature inflorescence, and daylength-insensitive …

Some 10,000 years ago during the agricul-tural revolution, ancient farmers bred hundreds of
wild species into the domesticated crops on which humans are dependent today. During this …

Ten thousand years ago human societies around the globe began to transition from hunting
and gathering to agriculture. By 4000 years ago, ancient peoples had completed the …

Over two thousand plant species have been modified morphologically through cultivation
and human use. Here, we review three aspects of crop domestication that are currently …

The techniques of plant improvement have been evolving with the advancement of
technology, progressing from crop domestication by Neolithic humans to scientific plant …

Like the formation of animal species, plant speciation is characterized by the evolution of
barriers to genetic exchange between previously interbreeding populations. Prezygotic …

BACKGROUND Among tens of thousands edible plants, several hundred are cultivated
throughout the world, but fewer than a dozen comprise the majority of consumed calories …

Plant domestication is an outstanding example of plant–animal co-evolution and is a far
richer model for studying evolution than is generally appreciated. There have been …

Concerns have been raised about the potential effects of transgenic introductions on the
genetic diversity of crop landraces and wild relatives in areas of crop origin and …

Domestication promotes rapid phenotypic evolution through artificial selection. We
investigated the genetic history by which the wild grass teosinte (Zea mays ssp. parviglumis) …