Wheat is the leading global food crop providing 19% of the daily calories and 21% of protein
requirements for humans. The wheat production has increased from 220 million tons in 1961 …

Abstract About 12,000 years ago, humans began the transition from hunter-gathering to a
sedentary, agriculture-based society. From its origins in the Near East, farming expanded …

Common wheat (Triticum aestivum, BBAADD) is a major staple food crop worldwide. The
diploid progenitors of the A and D subgenomes have been unequivocally identified; that of …

Triticum urartu (diploid, AA) is the progenitor of the A subgenome of tetraploid (Triticum
turgidum, AABB) and hexaploid (Triticum aestivum, AABBDD) wheat,. Genomic studies of T …

Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum, AABBDD) is one of the most widely cultivated and
consumed food crops in the world. However, the complex polyploid nature of its genome …

Perception of pathogenic effectors in plants often relies on nucleotide-binding domain (NBS)
and leucine-rich-repeat-containing (NLR) proteins. Some NLRs contain additional domains …

This book is concerned with questions on the times when and the places where a range of
plants were domesticated in the classical Old World (ie south-west Asia, Europe and Africa …

The origin of agriculture is one of the defining events of human history. Some 11-10,000
years ago bands of hunter-gatherers started to abandon their high-mobility lifestyles in …

Rht‐B1b and Rht‐D1b, the 'Green Revolution'(GR) genes, greatly improved yield potential of
wheat under nitrogen fertilizer application, but reduced coleoptile length, seedling vigor and …

Since the first edition of this book published in 2005, there has been an immense amount of
new and fascinating work on the history, ecology, and evolution of the Mediterranean flora …