The impact of domestication on resistance to two generalist herbivores across 29 independent domestication events.

doi:10.1111/nph.12935

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The impact of domestication on resistance to two generalist herbivores across 29 independent domestication events.

The New phytologist - 1 Nov 2014

Turcotte Martin M, Turley Nash E, Johnson Marc T J

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The domestication of crops is among the most important innovations in human history. Here, we test the hypothesis that cultivation and artificial selection for increased productivity of crops reduced plant defenses against herbivores. We compared the performance of two economically important generalist herbivores - the leaf-chewing beet armyworm (Spodoptera exigua) and the phloem-feeding green peach aphid (Myzus...

Topics

Agriculture
Animals
Aphids
Crops, Agricultural
Genetic Variation
Herbivory
Larva
Moths
Phylogeny

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PMID: 25039644
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12935

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