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

They also saw that maize has a few thousand "super enhancers." Each controls several genes at once. Incredibly, these super enhancers were very strongly selected when maize was domesticated 9,000 ...

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 ...

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

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

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: ...

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 ...