Though facing significant challenges, coffee (Coffea arabica) grown in Haitian agroforestry
systems are important contributors to rural livelihoods and provide several ecosystem …

Societal Impact Statement White fonio (Digitaria exilis [Kippist] Stapf) is an understudied
millet crop, indigenous to West Africa and cultivated in the region largely through traditional …

The date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, has been a cornerstone of Middle Eastern and North
African agriculture for millennia. It was first domesticated in the Persian Gulf, and its …

Relationships with place provide critical context for characterizing biocultural diversity. Yet,
genetic and genomic studies are rarely informed by Indigenous or local knowledge …

Three decades ago, worldwide biodiversity hotspots were founded on the distributions of
continental plants and vertebrates. Here, we question the timeliness of refining the …

Seven date palm seeds (Phoenix dactylifera L.), radiocarbon dated from the fourth century
BCE to the second century CE, were recovered from archaeological sites in the Southern …

The study of crop origins is of great interest both in the fields of evolutionary biology and
applied crop research. The understanding of plant domestication involves multiple …

Natural resources in northern regions are often data-limited because they are difficult and
expensive to access. Indigenous ecological knowledge (IEK) can provide information similar …

Societal Impact Statement The oasis of al‐'Ulā is subject to a vast development operation by
the central government of the Saudi monarchy. Agriculture is not strictly speaking the first …

The present study is a part of a program designed at improving the date palm, Phoenix
dactylifera L. cv. Barhee, through induced somaclonal variation. In this work, caulogenic …