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Crops and man

Jack R. Harlan
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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.

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Independent domestication events in the blue-cheese fungus Penicillium roqueforti

Emilie Dumas, +14 more
- 20 Jan 2020 - 
TL;DR: This study reconstructed the domestication history of the blue cheese mould Penicillium roqueforti and showed that this fungus was domesticated twice independently, shedding light on the processes of rapid adaptation and raises questions about genetic resource conservation.
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Influência da dinâmica agrícola itinerante na geração de diversidade de etnovariedades cultivadas vegetativamente

Nivaldo Peroni, +1 more
- 01 Jan 2000 - 
TL;DR: A Mata Atlântica é considerada uma area prioritaria para conservacao de biodiversidade, na qual muitas comunidades tradicionais de agricultores mantem ...
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Spatial and Seasonal Diversity of Wild Food Plants in Home Gardens of Northeast Thailand1

Gisella S. Cruz-Garcia, +3 more
- 20 Jun 2015 - 
TL;DR: Home gardens showed higher diversity in the dry season because of the presence of human management, and both the spatial and seasonal diversity of WFPs over different spatial configurations comprise a new perspective in home garden research by providing new understandings about their composition and management.
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Phenotypic diversity of plant morphological and root descriptor traits within a sweet potato, Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam., germplasm collection from Tanzania

Abdelhameed Elameen, +7 more
- 01 Mar 2011 - 
TL;DR: Phenotypic analyses revealed a wider range of variability than AFLP analyses, and molecular and phenotypic classifications are discordant, and both are necessary to classify the germplasm correctly and to clarify genetic relationships among sweet potato accessions.
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Patterns of Phenotypic Variation in a Germplasm Collection of Carthamus tinctorius L. from the Middle East

A. A. Jaradat, +1 more
- 01 Mar 2006 - 
TL;DR: The results suggest that adaptation of the species to the wide spatial and temporal variation in the Middle East resulted in a multitude of ecotypes and in enormous amount of local variation.