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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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Slimy leaves and oily seeds: Distribution and use of wild relatives of sesame in Africa
TL;DR: In this paper, a cultural, ecological, economic, geographical and historical study of the close wild relatives of sesame in Africa is presented along with ethnographic and linguistic data along with a summary of the genetic resources of Sesamum.
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Inferring ancient Agave cultivation practices from contemporary genetic patterns
TL;DR: Examination of genetic variation in relict Agave parryi populations northeast of the Mogollon Rim in Arizona concludes that manipulated populations date from a period when changes in the cultural context may have favoured active cultivation near dwellings, suggesting a complex anthropogenic history.
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Quantitative trait loci and the study of plant domestication
TL;DR: Some of the recent work on the quantitative genetics of plant domestication are reviewed, some of the common trends found in this literature are identified, and some novel interpretations of the data that is currently available are offered.
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Some recent issues on the conservation of crop genetic resources in developing countries
TL;DR: To increase the use of preserved C GRs in plant breeding, the formation of core collections, by selecting representative subsets from large ex situ collections of CGRs, was recommended in 1984 and, since then, the core-coll...
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Farmers' Knowledge and Sustainable Agroecosystem Management: An Operational Definition and an Example from Chiapas, Mexico
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the management of soils and germplasm by a group of small maize farmers in Chiapas, Mexico, and show that sustainable and nonsustainable managements can coexist in the same agroecosystem, and point out that an important part of the value of farmers' indigenous knowledge is to identify the incentives that lead to either management style.