Crop diversity underpins the productivity, resilience and adaptive capacity of agriculture.
Loss of this diversity, termed crop genetic erosion, is therefore concerning. While alarms …

Food systems face new climatic and socioecological challenges and farmers need a
diversity of new plant varieties to respond to these. While plant breeding is important …

Current food systems are challenged by relying on a few input-intensive, staple crops. The
prioritization of yield and the loss of diversity during the recent history of domestication has …

Dryland agricultural system is under threat due to climate extremes and unsustainable
management. Understanding of climate change impact is important to design adaptation …

Creating crops with resistance to drought, soil salinity and insect damage, that
simultaneously have higher nutritional quality, is challenging to conventional breeding due …

Domestication has transformed hundreds of wild plant species into productive cultivars for
human utility. However, cultivation practices and intense artificial selection for yield may …

The majority of the crops and vegetables of today were domesticated from their wild
progenitors within the past 12 000 years. Considerable research effort has been expended …

The Neolithic Revolution narrative associates early-mid Holocene domestications with the
development of agriculture that fueled the rise of late Holocene civilizations. This narrative …

The evidence from ancient crops over the past decade challenges some of our most basic
assumptions about the process of domestication. The emergence of crops has been viewed …

The global population continues to rise, as does the likelihood of reduced yields of major
food crops due to the changing climate, thus making the development of genetically …