This study summarizes the current research status of the impacts of crop domestication and improvement on root ...

The domestication of maize is one of the greatest examples of humankind's impact on evolution. Early farmers' pre-industrial plant breeding choices turned corn from a nearly inedible crop into the ...

Today, avocados are celebrated as a superfood and avocado farming is a global, multibillion-dollar industry. The fruits grow ...

A team of anthropologists and evolutionary biologists affiliated with several academic institutions in the U.S., working with ...

To grow the corn of tomorrow, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory geneticists and plant biologists are digging up maize’s ancient roots. The domestication of maize is one of the greatest examples of ...

Avocados are true superfoods: dense, buttery scoops of vitamins, fat and fiber, all in a hand-size package. We worked for a long time to make them this way. According to a paper published Monday in ...

It’s well established that maize was domesticated from teosinte, a wild Mexican grass. But the route of corn’s spread into what is now the southwestern United States has been more murky: ...

They also made an unexpected discovery: avocados were being farmed there even before maize. “El Gigante residents had already ...