There is growing consensus that we have entered the Anthropocene, a geologic epoch characterized by human domination of the ecosystems of the Earth. With the future …
Potato, one of the most important staple crops, originates from the highlands of the equatorial Andes. There, potatoes propagate vegetatively via tubers under short days …
A Roucou, C Violle, F Fort, P Roumet… - Journal of Applied …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Human selection, changes in environmental conditions and management practices drove the phenotypic trajectory of crops during domestication. The characterization of the crop …
BD Smith - Journal of Archaeological Research, 2015 - Springer
The initial domestication of plants and animals and the subsequent emergence of agricultural economies in different world regions represent a major evolutionary transition in …
E Hagelberg, M Hofreiter… - … Transactions of the …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Ancient DNA: the first three decades | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences logo logo Skip main navigationJournal menuClose Drawer MenuOpen …
How contemporary plant genomes originated and evolved is a fascinating question. One approach uses reference genomes from extant species to reconstruct the sequence and …
Y Zhou, Z Chen, M Cheng, J Chen… - Plant Biotechnology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Wheat was introduced to China approximately 4500 years ago, where it adapted over a span of time to various environments in agro‐ecological growing zones. We investigated …
Highlights•DNA from plant historic samples can be sequenced using next-generation sequencing.•Library-based methods are superior to PCR for sequencing of ancient …
Following the discovery in the late 1980s that hard tissues such as bones and teeth preserve genetic information, the field of ancient DNA analysis has typically concentrated upon these …