The Origin of Cultivated Plants

Candolle, Alphonse de

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“…Members of the Fabaceae family were domesticated as grain legumes in conjunction with the domestication of grasses for cereals (De Candolle, 1884;Vavilov, 1951;Smartt, 1990;Zohary and Hopf, 2000;Abbo et al, 2012). However, more legumes were domesticated overall, resulting in Fabaceae becoming the family to contain the largest number of domesticates.…”

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“…In Europe, pea has been cultivated since the Stone and Bronze Ages and in India from 200 BC (De Candolle, 1884). Cultivation of pea spread from the Fertile Crescent into today's Russia, and westwards along the Danube valley into Europe and/or to ancient Greece and Rome, which further facilitated its spread to northern and western Europe.…”

Section: Domestication Of Legumesmentioning

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Legume Crops Phylogeny and Genetic Diversity for Science and Breeding

Smýkal

Coyne

Ambrose

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Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences

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Section: Domestication Of Legumesmentioning

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Section: Domestication Of Legumesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Legume Crops Phylogeny and Genetic Diversity for Science and Breeding

Smýkal

Coyne

Ambrose

et al. 2014

Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences

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189

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“…Mango (Mangifera indica L.), a member of the family Anacardiaceae, is one of the choicest fruits in the world (De Candolle, 1904 andPopenoe, 1927). It has medium calorific and high nutritional values.…”

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Studies on physio-morphology, floral biology and fruit characteristics of mango

Majumder

Hassan

Rahim

et al. 2012

J Bangladesh Agric Univ

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Plant, inflorescences and fruit characteristics of 60 mango genotypes were studied during the period 2007 to 2008. There were distinct variations among the findings of the gemplasm on plant, leaf, inflorescence fruit characters and yield. Wide variations were observed in relation to the % flowering shoot, % perfect flower, % fruit set per panicle, number of harvested fruits per plant, individual fruit weight, % edible portion and % total soluble solid ranging from 24.00 to71.33%, 8.10 to19.17%, 9.07 to 29.27%, 21.33 to 60.33, 365.33 to 219.00g, 45.22 to 79.83% and 16.90 to 28.26%, respectively. The germplasm MI28 was top of the list in case of number of panicle, number of main branch per panicle, percent perfect flower and fruit harvest per plant. The maximum and minimum number of fruit set per panicle was noted in MI28 and MI92, respectively. The maximum percentage of fruit harvest per panicle was found in MI94 (5.46) but the germplasm MI28 gave the highest number of fruit per plant (60.33). Moreover, the germplasm MI09 had the highest percentage of edible portion (79.83).

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“…The hypothesis that crop plants were domesticated in the centers of respective species diversity was initially proposed by Alfonse de Candolle [16] and refined and expanded by Nikolai I. Vavilov [17]. Biologically, genetic diversity is distributed over primary, secondary, and tertiary gene pools [18], defined by their hybridization compatibility, and therefore not equally accessible to domesticated crops.…”

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The Impact of Genetic Changes during Crop Domestication

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Abstract:Humans have domesticated hundreds of plant and animal species as sources of food, fiber, forage, and tools over the past 12,000 years, with manifold effects on both human society and the genetic structure of the domesticated species. The outcomes of crop domestication were shaped by selection driven by human preferences, cultivation practices, and agricultural environments, as well as other population genetic processes flowing from the ensuing reduction in effective population size. It is obvious that any selection imposes a reduction of diversity, favoring preferred genotypes, such as nonshattering seeds or increased palatability. Furthermore, agricultural practices greatly reduced effective population sizes of crops, allowing genetic drift to alter genotype frequencies. Current advances in molecular technologies, particularly of genome sequencing, provide evidence of human selection acting on numerous loci during and after crop domestication. Population-level molecular analyses also enable us to clarify the demographic histories of the domestication process itself, which, together with expanded archaeological studies, can illuminate the origins of crops. Domesticated plant species are found in 160 taxonomic families. Approximately 2500 species have undergone some degree of domestication, and 250 species are considered to be fully domesticated. The evolutionary trajectory from wild to crop species is a complex process. Archaeological records suggest that there was a period of predomestication cultivation while humans first began the deliberate planting of wild stands that had favorable traits. Later, crops likely diversified as they were grown in new areas, sometimes beyond the climatic niche of their wild relatives. However, the speed and level of human intentionality during domestication remains a topic of active discussion. These processes led to the so-called domestication syndrome, that is, a group of traits that can arise through human preferences for ease of harvest and growth advantages under human propagation. These traits included reduced dispersal ability of seeds and fruits, changes to plant structure, and changes to plant defensive characteristics and palatability. Domestication implies the action of selective sweeps on standing genetic variation, as well as new genetic variation introduced via mutation or introgression. Furthermore, genetic bottlenecks during domestication or during founding events as crops moved away from their centers of origin may have further altered gene pools. To date, a few hundred genes and loci have been identified by classical genetic and association mapping as targets of domestication and postdomestication divergence. However, only a few of these have been characterized, and for even fewer is the role of the wild-type allele in natural populations understood. After domestication, only favorable haplotypes are retained around selected genes, which creates a genetic valley with extremely low genetic diversity. These "selective sweeps" can allow mildly deleterious...

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The Origin of Cultivated Plants

Cited by 61 publications

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Legume Crops Phylogeny and Genetic Diversity for Science and Breeding

Legume Crops Phylogeny and Genetic Diversity for Science and Breeding

Studies on physio-morphology, floral biology and fruit characteristics of mango

The Impact of Genetic Changes during Crop Domestication

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