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 …

The biodiversity of food and agriculture (Agrobiodiversity) in the anthropocene: Research advances and conceptual framework

KS Zimmerer, S de Haan, AD Jones… - Anthropocene, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Multiple knowledge systems are crucial to understand human-environment interactions of
the biodiversity of agriculture and food systems (agrobiodiversity). This article synthesizes …

Two teosintes made modern maize

N Yang, Y Wang, X Liu, M **, M Vallebueno-Estrada… - Science, 2023‏ - science.org
The origins of maize were the topic of vigorous debate for nearly a century, but neither the
current genetic model nor earlier archaeological models account for the totality of available …

Multiproxy evidence highlights a complex evolutionary legacy of maize in South America

L Kistler, SY Maezumi, J Gregorio de Souza… - Science, 2018‏ - science.org
Domesticated maize evolved from wild teosinte under human influences in Mexico
beginning around 9000 years before the present (yr BP), traversed Central America by …

South-to-north migration preceded the advent of intensive farming in the Maya region

DJ Kennett, M Lipson, KM Prufer, D Mora-Marín… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
The genetic prehistory of human populations in Central America is largely unexplored
leaving an important gap in our knowledge of the global expansion of humans. We report …

The interplay of demography and selection during maize domestication and expansion

L Wang, TM Beissinger, A Lorant, C Ross-Ibarra… - Genome biology, 2017‏ - Springer
Background The history of maize has been characterized by major demographic events,
including population size changes associated with domestication and range expansion, and …

Was there ever a Neolithic in the Neotropics? Plant familiarisation and biodiversity in the Amazon

C Fausto, EG Neves - antiquity, 2018‏ - cambridge.org
The Amazon is one of the few independent centres of plant domestication in the world, yet
archaeological and ethnographic evidence suggest a relatively recent transition to …

Maize endophytic bacterial diversity as affected by soil cultivation history

D Correa-Galeote, EJ Bedmar, GJ Arone - Frontiers in microbiology, 2018‏ - frontiersin.org
The bacterial endophytic communities residing within roots of maize (Zea mays L.) plants
cultivated by a sustainable management in soils from the Quechua maize belt (Peruvian …

[كتاب][B] People of the earth: An introduction to world prehistory

B Fagan, N Durrani - 2018‏ - taylorfrancis.com
People of the Earth is a narrative account of the prehistory of humankind from our origins
over 3 million years ago to the first pre-industrial civilizations, beginning about 5,000 years …

Archaeological Central American maize genomes suggest ancient gene flow from South America

L Kistler, HB Thakar, AM VanDerwarker… - Proceedings of the …, 2020‏ - pnas.org
Maize (Zea mays ssp. mays) domestication began in southwestern Mexico∼ 9,000 calendar
years before present (cal. BP) and humans dispersed this important grain to South America …