A Brief History of the Origin of Domesticated Date Palms

Evidence of an additional centre of apple domestication in Iran, with contributions from the Caucasian crab apple Malus orientalis Uglitzk. to the cultivated apple gene pool

“…It is still not clear, however, whether these two cultivated apple populations represent de novo domestication events. Distinct genetic ancestries may not reflect independent de novo domestication, but may instead represent a single domestication event with multiple origins (Choi et al, 2017;Gros-Balthazard & Flowers, 2021). The occurrence of independent domestication events in many crop species is a source of ongoing debate (Besnard et al, 2018;Choi et al, 2017;Gros-Balthazard & Flowers, 2021).…”

“…Distinct genetic ancestries may not reflect independent de novo domestication, but may instead represent a single domestication event with multiple origins (Choi et al, 2017;Gros-Balthazard & Flowers, 2021). The occurrence of independent domestication events in many crop species is a source of ongoing debate (Besnard et al, 2018;Choi et al, 2017;Gros-Balthazard & Flowers, 2021). In apricot and pear trees, there is evidence of independent domestication events in Europe and Asia, with distinct cultivated gene pools of different ancestries which display different genomic regions showing footprints of selection (Groppi et al, 2021;Liu et al, 2019;Wu et al, 2018).…”

Unlocking the hidden variation from wild repository for accelerating genetic gain in legumes

“…Agricultural practises have domesticated hundreds of crop plants from their wild relatives with altered phenotype and genotype ( Gros-Balthazard and Flowers, 2021 ). During the initial process of domestication, plants chosen for cultivation were indistinguishable from their wild relatives.…”

“…Furthermore, domestication greatly reduces the effective population sizes which altered the genotype frequencies in the population. It also caused domestication bottleneck in the population, which further reduced the genetic diversity in the crop plants ( Gros-Balthazard and Flowers, 2021 ). Reduced genetic diversity coupled with changing climatic conditions and surging pests has become a curse to agricultural production.…”

Arboriculture and Viticulture as Investment in the Early Islamic Levant: An Archaeobotanical and Historical Investigation of the Site of Ashkelon

“…In this region, and more broadly across the Mediterranean region and Near East, perennial cultivars include grapes (Vitis vinifera), dates (Phoenix dactylifera), olives (Olea JESHO �� (2023) 85-119 europaea), plums (Prunus domestica), and other tree fruits, for which there is abundant evidence in both written and material records throughout the duration of human occupation (Walsh 2000;Samuel 2001;Hämeen-Anttila 2006;Tengberg 2012b;Tengberg 2012a;D. Zohary, Hopf, and Weiss 2012;Lahham and Fitzwilliam-Hall 2014;Weiss 2015;Bouchaud, Jacuat, and Martinoli 2017;Bouchaud et al 2018;Limier et al 2018;Gros-Balthazard and Flowers 2021;Terral et al 2021). Not only do these arboreal crops provide major dietary components, but also a wide variety of secondary products, including value-added commodities such as oil, juice, wine, and vinegar, as well as regular fuel sources.…”