Global agriculture is dominated by a handful of species that currently supply a huge
proportion of our food and feed. It additionally faces the massive challenge of providing food …

Wheat and barley are two of the founder crops of the agricultural revolution that took place
10,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent and both crops remain among the world's most …

Genebanks hold comprehensive collections of cultivars, landraces and crop wild relatives of
all major food crops, but their detailed characterization has so far been limited to sparse core …

Tibetan barley (Hordeum vulgare L., qingke) is the principal cereal cultivated on the Tibetan
Plateau for at least 3,500 years, but its origin and domestication remain unclear. Here …

De-domestication or feralization is an interesting phenomenon in crops and livestock.
Previously, evidence for crop de-domestication was based mainly on studies using …

The study of crop evolution has focused primarily on the process of initial domestication.
Post‐domestication adaptation during the expansion of crops from their centers of origin has …

Agricultural weeds descended from domesticated ancestors, directly from crops
(endoferality) and/or from crop–wild hybridization (exoferality), may have evolutionary …

Introduction Frequent climate change-induced drought events are detrimental environmental
stresses affecting global crop production and ecosystem health. Several efforts have …

Our industrial-scale crop monocultures, which are necessary to provide grain for large-scale
food and feed production, are highly vulnerable to biotic and abiotic stresses. Crop wild …

Barley landraces accumulated variation in adapting to extreme highland environments
during long-term domestication in Tibet, but little is known about their population structure …