Domesticated food crops are derived from a phylogenetically diverse assemblage of wild
ancestors through artificial selection for different traits. Our understanding of domestication …

Human cancer cell lines are an integral part of drug discovery practices. However, modeling
the complexity of cancer utilizing these cell lines on standard plastic substrata, does not …

Accelerating crop improvement in sorghum, a staple food for people in semiarid regions
across the developing world, is key to ensuring global food security in the context of climate …

The apple is the most common and culturally important fruit crop of temperate areas. The
elucidation of its origin and domestication history is therefore of great interest. The wild …

Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) is one of the few crops native to the United States. The
current USDA–ARS National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) crop wild relatives sunflower …

Root and rhizosphere microbial communities can affect plant health, but it remains
undetermined how plant domestication may influence these bacterial and fungal …

Water deficit stress is a common environmental factor affecting growth and yield of crops, but
comparative studies on quantitative and qualitative characteristics among oilseed crops do …

For populations to maintain optimal fitness, harmful mutations must be efficiently purged
from the genome. Yet, under circumstances that diminish the effectiveness of natural …

This article attempts to summarize the current knowledge on plant domestication on the
basis of recent genome sequencing. To this end, several topics are explored, including (a) …

The development of modern crops typically involves both selection and hybridization, but to
date most studies have focused on the former. In the present study, we explore how both …