Domestication is a co-evolutionary process that occurs when wild plants are brought into
cultivation by humans, leading to origin of new species and/or differentiated populations that …

Smallholders' agroforests may be valuable for conserving tropical trees through three main
mechanisms. First, trees planted and/or retained by farmers in agricultural landscapes …

Wild almond species accumulate the bitter and toxic cyanogenic diglucoside amygdalin.
Almond domestication was enabled by the selection of genotypes harboring sweet kernels …

The apple is the most common and culturally important fruit crop of temperate areas. The
elucidation of its origin and domestication history is therefore of great interest. The wild …

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

Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) is a major fruit crop of arid regions that were
domesticated∼ 7,000 y ago in the Near or Middle East. This species is cultivated widely in …

During the evolution of the eukaryotic cell, plastids, and mitochondria arose from an
endosymbiotic process, which determined the presence of three genetic compartments into …

The montane rainforests of SW Ethiopia are the primary centre of diversity of Coffea arabica
and the origin of all Arabica coffee cultivated worldwide. This wild gene pool is potentially …

Ensuring the availability of the broadest possible germplasm base for agriculture in the face
of increasingly uncertain and variable patterns of biotic and abiotic change is fundamental …

The sequences of the full set of pepper genomes including nuclear, mitochondrial and
chloroplast are now available for use. However, the overall of simple sequence repeats …