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

Modern agriculture highly depends on the achievements of crop domestication and improvement. While these activities increase yields, they also reduce ...

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 ...

This means fruit domestication at this site began thousands of years before the arrival of more commonly studied plants like maize. “People were domesticating and cultivating their forests ...

By Shelly Leachman Lauded for its health benefits and adored as a topping for toast, the humble avocado is a certified A-lister of the produce world. It’s also a powerful economic engine: avocado ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa — A new exhibit honoring Mexican American history and culture will soon open at the Putnam Museum in ...

For anyone who’s been to grad school, the rise of academic unions may not come as a shock: As Samantha Snodgrass, an NSF postdoctoral fellow who studies maize domestication and genetics at the ...