BACKGROUND During the Neolithic revolution, early farmers altered plant development to domesticate crops. Similar traits were often selected independently in different wild species; yet the genetic basis of this parallel phenotypic evolution remains elusive. Plant architecture ranks among these target traits composing the domestication syndrome. We focused on the reduction of branching which oc...

Crop species have been deeply affected by the domestication process, and there have been many efforts to identify selection signatures at the genome level. This knowledge will help geneticists to better understand the evolution of organisms, and at the same time, help breeders to implement successful breeding strategies. Here, we focused on domestication in the Mesoamerican gene pool of Phaseol...

Studies of domestication genetics enrich our understanding how shapes genetic and morphological diversity. We characterized patterns variation in two independently domesticated pumpkins their wild progenitors to assess compare consequences domestication. To diversity pre- post-domestication identify genes targeted by selection during domestication, we analyzed ∼15,000 SNPs 48 unrelated accessio...

BACKGROUND Studies of domestication enables a better understanding of human cultures, landscape changes according to peoples' purposes, and evolutionary consequences of human actions on biodiversity. This review aimed at discussing concepts, hypotheses, and current trends in studies of domestication of plants, using examples of cases studied in regions of Mesoamerica and Brazil. We analyzed tre...

The domestication of new crops would promote agricultural diversity and could provide a solution to many of the problems associated with intensive agriculture. We suggest here that genome editing can be used as a new tool by breeders to accelerate the domestication of semi-domesticated or even wild plants, building a more varied foundation for the sustainable provision of food and fodder in the...

ABSTRAO'.-A case of attempted small mammal "domestication" is described based on ethnographic data from the Yemen Arab Republic (Fig. 1). Households of low economic status sought to supplement their cash incomes by taming a previously hunted species, the hyrax, Promvm CJlpensis jayakari. The experiments have largely ended in failure due to factors including the animal's biology and a poor manag...

Abstract Purpose Plant domestication altered leaf litter quality. Since traits relate to soil functions and organisms (i.e., decomposition decomposer communities), in this study we explore if domestication-induced changes quality have affected their decomposability, bacterial, fungal, nematode communities the soil. Methods We collected from herbaceous crops wild progenitors, measured chemical p...