A bountiful harvest: Genomic insights into crop domestication phenotypes

Annual Review of Plant Biology

Volumn 64, Issue , 2013, Pages 47-70

  Olsen, Kenneth M ^a   Wendel, Jonathan F ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Association mapping; Crop improvement; Evo devo; Evolutionary genomics; Human mediated selection

Indexed keywords

CROP; CROSS BREEDING; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GENOME; POLYPLOIDY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REVIEW;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; CROSSES, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, PLANT; GENOMICS; PHENOTYPE; POLYPLOIDY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84877677216     PISSN: 15435008     EISSN: 15452123     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-arplant-050312-120048     Document Type: Review

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