Article
Genetics and consequences of crop domestication.
Journal of agricultural and food chemistry - 4 Sept 2013
Flint-Garcia Sherry A
Abstract excerpt
Phenotypic variation has been manipulated by humans during crop domestication, which occurred primarily between 3000 and 10000 years ago in the various centers of origin around the world. The process of domestication has profound consequences on crops, where the domesticate has moderately reduced genetic diversity relative to the wild ancestor across the genome, and severely reduced diversity for genes targeted...
Topics
- Agriculture
- Breeding
- Crops, Agricultural
- Genetic Variation
- Genotype
- Phenotype
- Seeds
- Selection, Genetic
- Zea mays