The Government of Uganda has taken a significant step towards improving agricultural productivity and sustainability by initiating the domestication of the African Union Fertiliser and Soil Health ...

Mexico has amended its Constitution to recognise native corn as part of its national identity and has banned genetically ...

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 ...

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

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

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

Archaeologists and evolutionary biologists have uncovered fossilized avocado remains in Honduras, revealing that humans began ...

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 ...

Background: Domestication of wild boars into local and intensive pig breeds has driven adaptive genomic changes, resulting in significant phenotypic differences in intestinal immune function. The ...

How did wolves domesticated into dogs? The new study answers. Wolves may have domesticated themselves into early dogs to have easy access to food, thousands of years ago, a new study has claimed.