Zohary and Hopf coined the term 'founder crops' to refer to a specific group of eight plants,
namely three cereals (einkorn, emmer and barley), four legumes (lentil, pea, bitter vetch and …

Plant domestication is often discussed as a form of mutualism between humans and crop
plants. Ethnographies provide records of a multitude of adaptive strategies employed by …

Key message Bet-hedging is a complex evolutionary strategy involving morphological, eco-
physiological,(epi) genetic and population dynamics aspects. We review these aspects in …

Thousands of years before the maize-based agriculture practiced by many Native American
societies in eastern North America at the time of contact with Europeans, there existed a …

The development of agricultural societies, one of the most transformative events in human
and ecological history, was made possible by plant and animal domestication. Plant …

Tomato is an important crop worldwide. Cadmium (Cd) concentrations in fruits depend on
tomato genotype. This work aimed to study the relation among Cd accumulation, tolerance …

Our experiments with crop progenitors have demonstrated that these species exhibit
dramatic plasticity in key traits that are affected by domestication, including seed and fruit …

Over the past 20 years, archaeologists have grown increasingly interested in exploring the
relationships between humans and things. In part, this focus on materiality has been fueled …

Dispersal and colonization are among the most important ecological processes for species
persistence as they allow species to track changing environmental conditions. During the …

Crops generally have seeds larger than their wild progenitors´ and with reduced dormancy.
In wild plants, seed mass and allocation to the seed coat (a proxy for physical dormancy) …