Human civilisation has been shaped by the emergence of domesticated crop plants and livestock from their wild relatives. This long-term process involved ...

In the space of just a few years, Jiayang Li is trying to achieve something that once took people centuries. He wants to turn a wild rice species into a domesticated crop by hacking its genome. And he ...

Archaeologist Xinyi Liu at Washington University in St. Louis teamed up with Martin Jones of the University of Cambridge to write a new paper for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ...

This diagram illustrates the methodology of a meta-analysis comparing gene expression data between wild relatives and domesticated species. Using public gene expression databases and computer-based ...

Borrowing a page from what we know about animal behavior, archaeologists say that we should reassess our understanding of the process of plant domestication. The story of how ancient wolves came to ...

Rajeev Varshney receives funding from the Grains Research & Development Corporation, Australia, for pulses research at Murdoch University. Vanika Garg receives funding from the Grains Research & ...