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Intentional and unintentional selection during plant domestication: herbivore damage, plant defensive traits and nutritional quality of fruit and seed crops
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2021-05)
Greater susceptibility to herbivory can arise as an effect of crop domestication. One proposed explanation is that defenses decreased intentionally or unintentionally during the domestication process, but evidence for this ...
The influences of progenitor filtering, domestication selection and the boundaries of nature on the domestication of grain crops
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2021-06)
Domestication generally involves two sequential processes: initial identification of wild species with desirable characteristics (‘progenitor filtering’) and subsequent artificial and natural selection that, respectively, ...
The role of domestication and maternal effects on seed traits of crop–wild sunflower hybrids (Helianthus annuus)
(Wiley, 2017-08-18)
Hybridization between crops and their wild relatives may promote the evolution of weeds. Seed germination and dormancy are the earliest life-history traits and are highly influenced by the maternal parent. However, the ...
Estimated growth in domestic crops area, yield, and production 1969-1988
(1991-01)
5 tablas
A total of 50 crops are considered in this analysis. It explores the performance of the crops produced by the majority of the small farmers, mainly for domestic consumption. Small farmer's land and labour are ...
Accelerating silphium domestication: An opportunity to develop new crop ideotypes and breeding strategies informed by multiple disciplines
(Crop Science Society of America, 2017-06)
Silphium perfoliatum L. (cup plant, silphie) and S. integrifolium Michx. (rosinweed, silflower) are in the same subfamily and tribe as sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.). Silphium perfoliatum has been grown in many countries ...
Multiplicación de Aromáticas
(EEA Santa Cruz, INTA, 2018)
Denominamos plantas aromáticas a todas las especies vegetales cuya importancia radica en poseer un aroma y/o sabor. Esta
propiedad esta dada por componentes o fracciones volátiles que químicamente se denominan esencias.
Non-domesticated cultivation in the Andes: plant management and nurturing in the Argentine northwest
(Springer Verlag Berlín, 2015-01)
This contribution summarizes archaeobotanical analyses dealing with the identification of practices such as cultivation of morphologically wild or weedy plants, as opposed to the gathering and cultivation of morphologically ...