Evolution of crop species: genetics of domestication and diversification

RS Meyer, MD Purugganan - Nature reviews genetics, 2013 - nature.com
Domestication is a good model for the study of evolutionary processes because of the recent
evolution of crop species (< 12,000 years ago), the key role of selection in their origins, and …

Seed shattering: a trait of evolutionary importance in plants

A Maity, A Lamichaney, DC Joshi, A Bajwa… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Seed shattering refers to the natural shedding of seeds when they ripe, a phenomenon
typically observed in wild and weedy plant species. The timing and extent of this …

Archaeological and genetic insights into the origins of domesticated rice

BL Gross, Z Zhao - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Rice (Oryza sativa) is one of the most important cereal grains in the world today and serves
as a staple food source for more than half of the world's population. Research into when …

The CIPRES science gateway: a community resource for phylogenetic analyses

MA Miller, W Pfeiffer, T Schwartz - Proceedings of the 2011 TeraGrid …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
The CIPRES Science Gateway (CSG) provides researchers and educators with browser-
based access to community codes for inference of phylogenetic relationships from DNA and …

Association between seed dormancy and pericarp color is controlled by a pleiotropic gene that regulates abscisic acid and flavonoid synthesis in weedy red rice

XY Gu, ME Foley, DP Horvath, JV Anderson, J Feng… - Genetics, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Seed dormancy has been associated with red grain color in cereal crops for a century. The
association was linked to qSD7-1/qPC7, a cluster of quantitative trait loci for seed …

Weedy (red) rice: an emerging constraint to global rice production

LH Ziska, DR Gealy, N Burgos, AL Caicedo… - Advances in …, 2015 - Elsevier
Ongoing increases in the human population necessitate that rice will continue to be a critical
aspect of food security for the twenty-first century. While production must increase in the …

The Genomics of Oryza Species Provides Insights into Rice Domestication and Heterosis

E Chen, X Huang, Z Tian, RA Wing… - Annual review of plant …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Here, we review recent progress in genetic and genomic studies of the diversity of Oryza
species. In recent years, unlocking the genetic diversity of Oryza species has provided …

The red queen in the corn: agricultural weeds as models of rapid adaptive evolution

CC Vigueira, KM Olsen, AL Caicedo - Heredity, 2013 - nature.com
Weeds are among the greatest pests of agriculture, causing billions of dollars in crop losses
each year. As crop field management practices have changed over the past 12 000 years …

De-domestication: an extension of crop evolution

D Wu, S Lao, L Fan - Trends in Plant Science, 2021 - cell.com
De-domestication or feralization is an interesting phenomenon in crops and livestock.
Previously, evidence for crop de-domestication was based mainly on studies using …

Molecular evolution of shattering loci in US weedy rice

CS Thurber, M Reagon, BL Gross, KM Olsen… - Molecular …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Cultivated rice fields worldwide are plagued with weedy rice, a conspecific weed of
cultivated rice (Oryza sativa L.). The persistence of weedy rice has been attributed, in part, to …