Crop domestication is the process of artificially selecting plants to increase their suitability to
human requirements: taste, yield, storage, and cultivation practices. There is increasing …

Domestication can be considered a specialized mutualism in which a domesticator exerts
control over the reproduction or propagation (fitness) of a domesticated species to gain …

Our understanding of domestication comes largely from archeology and genetics. Here, we
advocate using current ecological theory and methodologies to provide novel insights into …

For millennia, humans have imposed strong selection on domesticated crops, resulting in
drastically altered crop phenotypes compared with wild ancestors. Crop yields have …

Hybridization and introgressions are important evolutionary forces in plants. They contribute
to the domestication of many species, including understudied clonal crops. Here, we …

Greater susceptibility to herbivory can arise as an effect of crop domestication. One
proposed explanation is that defenses decreased intentionally or unintentionally during the …

Plants recruit specific microorganisms to live inside and outside their roots that provide
essential functions for plant growth and health. The study of the microbial communities living …

Resistance to and avoidance of stress slow aging and confer increased longevity in
numerous organisms. Honey bees and other superorganismal social insects have two main …

Crop domestication and selective breeding have altered plant defense mechanisms,
influencing insect-plant interactions. A reduction in plant resistance/tolerance against …

Agriculture is a dominant evolutionary force that drives the evolution of both domesticated
and wild species. However, the various mechanisms of agriculture-induced evolution and …