Soybean isoflavone synthase (IFS) and flavanone 3-hydroxylase (F3H) are two key enzymes catalyzing the biosynthesis of isoflavonoids and flavonoids, both of which play diverse roles in stress responses. However, little is known about the evolutionary pattern of these genes in cultivated soybean and its wild progenitors. Herein, we investigated the nucleotide polymorphisms in Isoflavone synthase...

Research related to crop domestication has been transformed by technologies and discoveries in the genome sciences as well as information-related sciences that are providing new tools for bioinformatics and systems' biology. Rapid progress in archaeobotany and ethnobotany are also contributing new knowledge to understanding crop domestication. This sense of rapid progress is encapsulated in thi...

I the two volumes of The Civilizing Process (first published in German in 1939, and in English in 1982) Norbert Elias studied changes in manners, society, and personality in western Europe over the period roughly from 850 to 1850. The documentary evidence upon which he based his argument was mainly derived from the second half of this period, from 1350 to 1850. The purpose of the study was to a...

The article first introduces the domestication approach, its origins, its key elements, and its general contributions and limitations. It then examines ways in which the domestication analysis could be developed. One issue concerns contemporary objects of study and research questions given developments in information and communication technologies since the earliest domestication studies. Other...

have the proper tools to settle the debate scientifically. While the exact date of domestication is still unknown, recent phylogenomic analyses comparing wild olive varieties to domesticated cultivars point to the first domestication event in the Levant region of Syria (same as wheat, incidentally), with domestication of all of the modern day cultivars radiating from this original domestication...

Human manipulation of wild progenitors during crop domestication has led to the foundation of modern agriculture ( Zohary and Hopf, 2000 ; Glémin and Bataillon, 2009 ). A common suite of traits including loss of seed shattering, dormancy, and branching are often selected during the domestication process and referred to as the “domestication syndrome” ( Zohary and Hopf, 2000 ). After primary tra...

have the proper tools to settle the debate scientifically. While the exact date of domestication is still unknown, recent phylogenomic analyses comparing wild olive varieties to domesticated cultivars point to the first domestication event in the Levant region of Syria (same as wheat, incidentally), with domestication of all of the modern day cultivars radiating from this original domestication...

'Domestication syndrome' (DS) denotes differences between domesticated plants and their wild progenitors. Crop plants are dynamic entities; hence, not all parameters distinguishing wild progenitors from cultigens resulted from domestication. In this opinion article, we refine the DS concept using agronomic, genetic, and archaeobotanical considerations by distinguishing crucial domestication tra...

We lack both a theoretical framework and solid empirical data to understand domestication impacts on plant chemistry. We hypothesised that domestication increased leaf N and P to support high plant production rates, but biogeographic and climate patterns further influenced the magnitude and direction of changes in specific aspects of chemistry and stoichiometry. To test these hypotheses, we use...

to investigate the origins and domestication of guinea pigs, or cuyes (Cavia porcellus), we re-analyzed 12S rrNa (759 bp) and cytochrome b gene (1140 bp) sequence data from relevant species and breeds. Seventeen pre-Columbian mummified cuyes from southern Peru and northern Chile sites are described and compared with both domesticated (living andean creole and European breeds) and wild species. ...