The arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis is key to plant nutrition, and hence is potentially key in sustainable agriculture. Fertilization and other agricultural practices reduce soil AM fungi and ...
The three staple crops dominating modern diets – corn, rice and wheat – are familiar to Americans. However, fourth place is held by a dark horse: cassava. Over the course of millennia, Indigenous ...
Haplotypic PCoAs. A PCoA was conducted for every 500 kb genome segment using edit distances between haplotypes. The resulting PCoAs were aligned using Procrustes and automatically classified into ...
With global population growth and climate change posing escalating threats to crop production, the current food system is ...
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CRISPR boosts a little-known fruit into a big farming win
Goldenberries have long been a niche curiosity, tucked into specialty produce aisles and health food shops while tomatoes and ...
• 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 ...
In the rugged Tumacácori mountain region 45 minutes south of Tucson, the Wild Chile Botanical Area (WCBA) was established in 1999 to protect and study the chiltepin pepper—the single wild relative of ...
Archaeologist Xinyi Liu at Washington University in St. Louis teamed up with Martin Jones of the University of Cambridge to write a new paper for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ...
Borrowing a page from what we know about animal behavior, archaeologists say that we should reassess our understanding of the process of plant domestication. The story of how ancient wolves came to ...
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