Main conclusion Orphan crops can contribute to building resilience of marginal cropping
systems as a climate chnage adaptation strategy. Orphan crops play an important role in …

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

Seed dormancy, by controlling the timing of germination, can strongly affect plant survival.
The kind of seed dormancy, therefore, can influence both population and species‐level …

Although theory has demonstrated rather low levels of gene flow are sufficient to counteract
opposing mutation, drift, and selection, widespread recognition of the evolutionary …

The evolutionary significance of hybridization and subsequent introgression has long been
appreciated, but evaluation of the genome-wide effects of these phenomena has only …

Background The mountainous region between the Caucasus and China is considered to be
the center of domestication for grapevine. Despite the importance of Central Asia in the …

Powerful scientific techniques have caused dramatic expansion of genetically modified
crops leading to altered agricultural practices posing direct and indirect environmental …

Crop domestication provided the calories that fueled the rise of civilization,,. For many crop
species, domestication was accompanied by the evolution of weedy crop relatives, which …

De-domestication is a unique evolutionary process by which domesticated crops are
converted into 'wild predecessor like'forms. Weedy rice (Oryza sativa f. spontanea) is an …

The evolutionary significance of introgression has been discussed for decades. Questions
about potential impacts of transgene flow into wild and weedy populations brought renewed …