But did humans also favor certain wild plants for domestication because they were ... This is one of the simplest and most common gardening techniques, but it has many important effects on the ...

Chinese researchers recently discovered molecular evidence supporting Lamarckism, a long-debated theory from the early 19th ...

Scientists are using new genetic and microbotanical techniques to distinguish ... evidence of the presence of domesticated maize, along with that from other plants indicating agricultural activity ...

Quantitative trait locus mapping techniques, genome-wide association ... In this Review, we discuss the genetic architecture of crop plant domestication and investigate the evolutionary genomics ...

Iowa State University scientists are learning how to peer back through millennia of domestication to ... in the academic journal Frontiers of Plant Science, detailing a new biotech tool that harnesses ...

The domestication of plants and animals has played a key role in the development ... co-director of the study. This technique, which is several thousand years old, uses microorganisms, such as yeast ...

The most prominent technique uses CRISPR–Cas9 ... efficiently than do domesticated varieties, says Li. The domestication of wild plants should allow farmers to use less fertilizer, reducing ...

Using such techniques to delve into their origins ... Davin also hopes that future research will shed further light on the domestication of plants. Tools from the Kebara Cave could hold residues ...

In the mid-19 th century, Gregor Mendel established the principles of inheritance underlying the cross-breeding of plants – a technique that involved combining the characteristics of two different ...

Mueller used a flotation technique to separate remnants of wild and domesticated plant species from ashes and other debris in a hearth excavated at Kakapel. Although she has used this technique in ...