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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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Human impacts on forest genetic resources in the temperate zone: an updated review
TL;DR: Forest genetic resources are considered here in a global perspective, including both cultivated and wild populations, and research on domestication in crop plants reveals that drastic selection can still retain a significant level of genetic diversity including diversity of some genes involved in the selected traits.
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Crop plants as models for understanding plant adaptation and diversification.
TL;DR: The state of the knowledge of the mutational spectrum that generates phenotypic novelty in domesticated plant species, and the current understanding of how domestication can reshape gene expression networks and emergent phenotypes are summarized.
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The chickpea, summer cropping, and a new model for pulse domestication in the ancient near east
TL;DR: It is argued for an earlier Levantine origin of summer cropping because chickpea, when grown as a common winter crop, was vulnerable to the devastating pathogen Didymella rabiei, the causal agent of Ascochyta blight.
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Genetic variation and interrelationships of agronomic characters in landraces of bread wheat from southeastern Iran.
TL;DR: The landraces could be improved by intercrossing the promising genotypes identified in this study, with simultaneous selection for earliness, fewer number of spikes per plant, greater number of grains per spike and heavier grains.
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Crops that feed the world 11. Pearl Millet (Pennisetum glaucum L.): an important source of food security, nutrition and health in the arid and semi-arid tropics
TL;DR: Pearl millet has high nutritional value in terms of high levels of energy, dietary fibre, proteins with a balanced amino acid profile, many essential minerals, some vitamins, and antioxidants, and there is great potential for harnessing these positive attributes through genetic improvement, improved crop management, and grain processing and food products technologies.