Patricia Colunga-GarcíaMarín

TL;DR: It is highly likely that about 10,000 before present (BP) human groups specializing in plant gathering and small game hunting in the dry tropical forest of the Balsas-Jalisco biotic morphotectonic province began the process of plant domestication and agriculture, using fire as a tool.

TL;DR: It is assumed that human selection is the most important evolutionary mechanism for maintaining the high wild-domesticated differentiation by negative farmer selection of cultivated plants with morphological characters that suggest introgression.

TL;DR: Using intersimple sequence repeats and Bayesian estimators of diversity and structure, it is found that A. angustifolia traditional landraces had a genetic diversity similar to its wild populations and a higher genetic structure than the blue agave commercial system.

TL;DR: Recent evidence on early agriculture in the geographic area where Lowland Maya culture originated is reviewed, and its implications for the study of plant domestication and evolution under human selection within this cultural sub-area are discussed.

TL;DR: Results indicate that the nucleus of greatest diversity at present in the south of Jalisco is a result of a continuous process of selection initiated by the indigenous population for the production of food and fermented drinks, which continued into the final years of the 16th century but with a new objective: distillation using the Filipino technology introduced to west-central Mexico through Colima.