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The article was published on 1975-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1120 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Domestication & Germplasm.read more
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Crop domestication and the evolutionary ecology of cocona (Solanum sessiliflorum Dunal)
TL;DR: Of approximately 200,000 species of flowering plants, perhaps 3000 are eaten as food, and of these, only 15–20 are now of major importance (Heiser, 1973; NAS, 1972), and few activities have so changed the history of the human race as has crop domestication.
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Pod shattering in grain legumes: emerging genetic and environment-related patterns.
TL;DR: A growing body of evidence indicates that these changes are controlled by a relatively small number of key genes that have been selected in parallel across grain legume species, supporting partial molecular convergence.
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Early food production in sub-Saharan Africa
TL;DR: The early Urewe ware makers were certainly workers of iron, but there is as yet only indirect evidence for pastoralism or agriculture in this group of the Early Iron Age, together with an evaluation of the economy of the final Later Stone Age peoples during the time of their contact with the immigrant Iron Age farmers as discussed by the authors.
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Variation and Segregation for Rachis Fragility in Spelt Wheat, Triticum Spelta L.
TL;DR: The results demonstrated that spelt germplasm contains a wide range of rachis toughness, and thus selection of spelt wheat with desirable characteristics combined with an appropriate level of tough rchis would be possible.
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The determinants of cereal crop diversity on farms in the Ethiopian highlands
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the determinants of inter-and infra-specific diversity on household farms in the highlands of northern Ethiopia, and found that physical features of the farm, and household characteristics such as livestock assets and the proportion of adults that are men, have large and significant effects on both the diversity among and within cereal crops grown, varying among crops.