Ancient people used genetic variation in wild plants to domesticate crops
New genomic tools let scientists dig into the family trees of crops like rice, corn and adzuki beans to learn more about how they transitioned from wild plants to domesticated crops.
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A Conversation article explaining how genomic tools reveal that many domestication-linked mutations in crops like rice, corn and adzuki beans already existed at low frequency in wild populations before cultivation. It describes methods for dating mutations and argues that domestication often involved long-term, sometimes unconscious selection raising those variants over thousands of years.
- Genomic analyses can date when crop mutations arose
- Many domestication traits existed at low frequency in wild plants
- Domestication involved gradual rise of traits over millennia
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