The authors examined "three independent domestication events" — the precise, often long-term process by which a species ...

Corn was domesticated from its ancestor teosinte in central Mexico beginning about 9,000 years ago by humans selectively breeding the wild plant, transforming its small, hard-shelled kernels into the ...

Haplotypic PCoAs. A PCoA was conducted for every 500 kb genome segment using edit distances between haplotypes. The resulting PCoAs were aligned using Procrustes and automatically classified into ...

Building on the Middle East's reputation as one of the historical birthplaces of cereal crop domestication, a KAUST-led team has compiled the first complete genome map of an ancient grain known as ...

An evolutionary "arms race" for light and space drove the early domestication of wheat, according to new research that could ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A grower shows off his lush cassava garden. Stephen Wooding, CC BY-ND The three staple crops dominating modern diets – corn, rice ...

Archaeologist Xinyi Liu at Washington University in St. Louis teamed up with Martin Jones of the University of Cambridge to write a new paper for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ...

Crop breeding for higher yields may be unintentionally reducing the beneficial microorganisms that help plants absorb nutrients Modern corn, wheat, and beans have dramatically different root systems ...

Rice is a staple crop around the world, but how did that come to be? Rice is a staple crop around the world, but how did that come to be? And what's actually the difference between all the rice ...

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