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Plants cultivated for ecosystem restoration can evolve toward a domestication syndrome.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 16 May 2023
Conrady Malte, Lampei Christian, Bossdorf Oliver, Hölzel Norbert, Michalski Stefan, Durka Walter, Bucharova Anna
Abstract excerpt
The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration calls for upscaling restoration efforts, but many terrestrial restoration projects are constrained by seed availability. To overcome these constraints, wild plants are increasingly propagated on farms to produce seeds for restoration projects. During on-farm propagation, the plants face non-natural conditions with different selection pressures, and they might evolve...
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