Plant domestication is a process in which plants increase their productive characteristics, such as size or number of seed according to the human needs. However, these improvements provoke changes on both insect community ...

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 ...

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 ...

Plant domestication can modify and weaken defensive chemical traits, reducing chemical defenses in plants and consequently their resistance against pests. We characterized and quantified the major defensive flavonols and ...

This article reviews the studies on plant and animal domestication in Argentine archaeology, it presents the current state and future perspectives. Diverse theoretical issues related to domestication are discussed, including ...

Domestication generally involves two sequential processes: initial identification of wild species with desirable characteristics (‘progenitor filtering’) and subsequent artificial and natural selection that, respectively, ...