As with the wild tomato, genetic material from wild potato species could make its domestic ... technique is not as unnatural as it might seem at first glance. The dandelion, and other plants ...

seeks to identify genes in modern crop species that are associated with domestication traits in the plant, such as an erect rather than a sprawling architecture. The techniques used to isolate ...

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 ...

Their results show that it's possible to take a plant ... it close to domestication in a matter of years. The team describes their work, a shortcut around traditional breeding techniques, October ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...