During the process of domestication, plants and animals have evolved under conscious and unconscious selection by humans.
Keywords: crop; agriculture; breeding; food
Evolution during Domestication
Paul Gepts, University of California, Davis, California, USA
Roberto Papa, Università degli Studi di Ancona, Ancona, Italy
Published online: January 2003
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0003071
|
Figure 1. Centres of crop domestication.
|
| References | |
| Badr A, Müller K, Schäfer-Pregl R et al. (2000) On the origin and domestication history of barley (Hordeum vulgare). Molecular Biology and Evolution 17: 499–510. | |
| book Darwin C (1868) The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication. London: J. Murray. | |
| book Doebley J (1992) "Molecular systematics and crop evolution". In: Soltis PS, Soltis DE and Doyle JJ (eds) Molecular Systematics of Plants, pp. 202–222. New York: Chapman Hall | |
| Doebley J and Stec A (1991) Genetic analysis of the morphological differences between maize and teosinte. Genetics 129: 285–295. | |
| Doebley JF, Goodman MM and Stuber CW (1984) Isoenzymatic variation in Zea (Gramineae). Systematic Botany 9: 203–218. | |
| Doebley J, Stec A, Wendel J and Edwards M (1990) Genetic and morphological analysis of a maize-teosinte F2 population: implications for the origin of maize. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 87: 9888–9892. | |
| Dvorak J, Luo MC, Yang ZL and Zhang HB (1998) The structure of the Aegilops tauschii genepool and the evolution of hexaploid wheat. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 97: 657–670. | |
| Ellstrand N, Prentice H and Hancock J (1999) Gene flow and introgression from domesticated plants into their wild relatives. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 30: 539–563. | |
| book Frankel O, Brown A and Burdon J (1995) The Conservation of Plant Biodiversity. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. | |
| Frary A, Nesbitt T, Frary A et al. (2000) fw2.2: A quantitative trait locus key to the evolution of tomato fruit size. Science 289: 85–88. | |
| book Gepts P (1988) "Phaseolin as an evolutionary marker". In: Gepts P (ed.) Genetic Resources of Phaseolus Beans, pp. 215–241. Dordrecht: Kluwer | |
| Gepts P (1993) The use of molecular and biochemical markers in crop evolution studies. Evolutionary Biology 27: 51–94. | |
| Gepts P, Osborn TC, Rashka K and Bliss FA (1986) Phaseolin-protein variability in wild forms and landraces of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris): evidence for multiple centers of domestication. Economic Botany 40: 451–468. | |
| Grandillo S and Tanksley SD (1996) QTL analysis of horticultural traits differentiating the cultivated tomato from the closely related species Lycopersicon pimpinellifolium. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 92: 935–951. | |
| book Harlan JR (1992) Crops and Man, 2nd edn. Madison, WI: American Society of Agronomy. | |
| Heun M, Schafer-Pregl R, Klawan D et al. (1997) Site of einkorn wheat domestication identified by DNA fingerprinting. Science 278: 1312–1314. | |
| Jiang C-X, Wright R, El-Zik K and Paterson A (1998) Polyploid formation created unique avenues for response to selection in Gossypium(cotton). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 95: 4419–4424. | |
| Koinange EMK, Singh SP and Gepts P (1996) Genetic control of the domestication syndrome in common-bean. Crop Science 36: 1037–1045. | |
| Liljegren S, Ditta G, Eshed H et al. (2000) SHATTERPROOF MADS-box genes control seed dispersal in Arabidopsis. Nature 404: 766–770. | |
| MacHugh DE and Bradley DG (2001) Livestock genetic origins: goats buck the trend. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 98: 5382–5384. | |
| book Maxted N, Ford-Lloyd B and Hawkes J (1997) Plant Genetic Conservation: The In Situ Approach. London: Chapman & Hall. | |
| Olsen KM and Schaal B (1999) Evidence on the origin of cassava: phylogeography of Manihot esculenta. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 96: 5586–5591. | |
| Poncet V, Lamy F, Enjalbert J et al. (1998) Genetic analysis of the domestication syndrome in pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum L. Poaceae): inheritance of the major characters. Heredity 81: 648–658. | |
| Poncet V, Lamy F, Devos K et al. (2000) Genetic control of domestication traits in pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum L. Poaceae). Theoretical and Applied Genetics 100: 147–159. | |
| Wang R-L, Stec A, Hey J, Lukens L and Doebley J (1999) The limits of selection during maize domestication. Nature 398: 236–239. | |
| Wang R-L, Stec A, Hey J, Lukens L and Doebley J (2001) Correction: The limits of selection during maize domestication. Nature 410: 718. | |
| Xiong L, Liu K, Dai X, Xu C and Zhang Q (1999) Identification of genetic factors controlling domestication-related traits of rice using an F2 population of a cross between Oryza sativa and O. rufipogon. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 98: 243–251. | |
| Yano M, Katayose Y, Ashikari M et al. (2000) Hd1, a major photoperiod sensitivity quantitative trait locus in rice, is closely related to the Arabidopsis flowering time gene CONSTANS. Plant Cell 12: 2473–2483. | |
| Further Reading | |
| book Damania A, Valkoun J, Willcox G and Qualset C (eds) (1998) The Origins of Agriculture and Crop Domestication. Aleppo, Syria: ICARDA. | |
| book FAO (1998) The State of the World's Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. | |
| book Hancock J (1992) Plant Evolution and the Origin of Crop Species. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. | |
| book Ladizinsky G (1998) Plant Evolution under Domestication. Dordrecht: Kluwer. | |
| book Piperno D and Pearsall D (1998) The Origin of Agriculture in the Neotropics. San Diego, CA: Academic Press. | |
| book Sauer J (1993) Historical Geography of Plants. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. | |
| book Smith B (1995) The Emergence of Agriculture. New York: Scientific American Library. | |
