Were Fertile Crescent crop progenitors higher yielding than other wild species that were never domesticated?
(2015)
Journal Article
Preece, C., Livarda, A., Wallace, M., Martin, G., Charles, M., Christin, P., …Osborne, C. P. (2015). Were Fertile Crescent crop progenitors higher yielding than other wild species that were never domesticated?. New Phytologist, 207(3), https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.13353
During the origin of agriculture in the Fertile Crescent, the broad spectrum of wild plant species exploited by hunter-gatherers narrowed dramatically. The mechanisms responsible for this specialization and the associated domestication of plants are... Read More about Were Fertile Crescent crop progenitors higher yielding than other wild species that were never domesticated?.