Were Fertile Crescent crop progenitors higher yielding than other wild species that were never domesticated?

New Phytologist

Volumn 207, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 905-913

  Preece, Catherine ^a,d   Livarda, Alexandra ^b   Wallace, Michael ^a   Martin, Gemma ^a   Charles, Michael ^c   Christin, Pascal Antoine ^a   Jones, Glynis ^a   Rees, Mark ^a   Osborne, Colin P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d CREAF   (Spain)

Author keywords

Crop progenitors; Domestication; Fertile Crescent; Harvest traits; Origins of agriculture; Seed size; Yield

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL HISTORY; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CROP PLANT; CROP YIELD; DATA SET; DOMESTICATION; GRASS; HARVESTING; HUNTER-GATHERER; NEOLITHIC; SEED SIZE; SOWING; SPECIALIZATION; WILD POPULATION;

POACEAE;

CROP; FABACEAE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLANT SEED; POACEAE; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; FABACEAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POACEAE; REPRODUCTION; SEEDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84936206891     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.13353     Document Type: Article

References (59)

1. Abbo S, Lev-Yadun S, Gopher A. 2010a. Agricultural origins: centers and noncenters; a Near Eastern reappraisal. Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences 29: 317-328.
2. Abbo S, Lev-Yadun S, Gopher A. 2010b. Yield stability: an agronomic perspective on the origin of Near Eastern agriculture. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 19: 143-150.
3. Abbo S, Lev-Yadun S, Gopher A. 2014. The 'Human Mind' as a common denominator in plant domestication. Journal of Experimental Botany 65: 1917-1920.
4. Abbo S, Lev-Yadun S, Heun M, Gopher A. 2013. On the 'lost' crops of the neolithic Near East. Journal of Experimental Botany 64: 815-822.
5. Abbo S, Rachamim E, Zehavi Y, Zezak I, Lev-Yadun S, Gopher A. 2011. Experimental growing of wild pea in Israel and its bearing on Near Eastern plant domestication. Annals of Botany 107: 1399-1404.
6. Bar-Yosef O. 1998. The Natufian culture in the Levant, threshold to the origins of agriculture. Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews 6: 159-177.
7. Blumler M. 1998. Evolution of caryopsis gigantism and agricultural origins. Research in contemporary and applied geography: a discussion series. New York, NY, USA: Binghampton University.
8. 4 intermediate forms of photosynthesis in Molluginaceae. Evolution 65: 643-660.
9. Colledge S, Conolly J. 2010. Reassessing the evidence for the cultivation of wild crops during the Younger Dryas at Tell Abu Hureyra, Syria. Environmental Archaeology 15: 124-138.
10. Connolly J, Shennan SJ. 2007. The origin and spread of Neolithic plant economies in the Near East and Europe (data-set). York, UK: Archaeology Data Service.
11. Cunniff J, Wilkinson S, Charles M, Jones G, Rees M, Osborne CP. 2014. Functional traits differ between cereal crop progenitors and other wild grasses gathered in the Neolithic Fertile Crescent. PLoS ONE 9: e87586.
12. Drummond AJ, Rambaut A. 2007. BEAST: Bayesian evolutionary analysis by sampling trees. BMC Evolutionary Biology 7: 214.
13. Edgar RC. 2004. MUSCLE: multiple sequence alignment with high accuracy and high throughput. Nucleic Acids Research 32: 1792-1797.
14. El-Zeadani H, Puteh AB, Mondal MMA, Selamat A, Ahmad ZA, Shalgam MM. 2014. Seed growth rate, seed filling period and yield responses of soybean (Glycine max) to plant densities at specific reproductive growth stages. International Journal of Agriculture and Biology 16: 923-928.
15. Evans LT. 1993. Crop evolution, adaptation and yield. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
16. Fuller DQ, Allaby RG, Stevens C. 2010. Domestication as innovation: the entanglement of techniques, technology and chance in the domestication of cereal crops. World Archaeology 42: 13-28.
17. Fuller DQ, Asouti E, Purugganan MD. 2012a. Cultivation as slow evolutionary entanglement: comparative data on rate and sequence of domestication. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 21: 131-145.
18. Fuller DQ, Willcox G, Allaby RG. 2012b. Early agricultural pathways: moving outside the 'core area' hypothesis in Southwest Asia. Journal of Experimental Botany 63: 617-633.
19. 4 origins. New Phytologist 193: 304-312.
20. Gremillion KJ, Barton L, Piperno DR. 2014a. Particularism and the retreat from theory in the archaeology of agricultural origins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 111: 6171-6177.
21. Gremillion KJ, Barton L, Piperno DR. 2014b. Reply to Smith: on distinguishing between models, hypotheses, and theoretical frameworks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 111: E2830.
22. Gremillion KJ, Barton L, Piperno DR. 2014c. Reply to Zeder: maintaining a diverse scientific toolkit is not an act of faith. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 111: E2828.
23. Harlan JR. 1967. Wild wheat harvest in Turkey. Archaeology 20: 197-201.
24. Harlan JR, de Wet JMJ, Price EG. 1973. Comparative evolution of cereals. Evolution 27: 311-325.
25. Harper JL. 1977. Population biology of plants. London, UK: Academic Press.
26. Hillman G. 1978. On the origins of domestic rye: Secale cereale: the finds from Aceramic Can Hasan III in Turkey. Anatolian Studies 28: 157-174.
27. Jones G, Valamoti S, Charles M. 2000. Early crop diversity: a "new" glume wheat from northern Greece. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 9: 133-146.
28. Kirby EJM. 1967. The effect of plant density upon the growth and yield of barley. The Journal of Agricultural Science 68: 317-324.
29. Kluyver TA. 2013. A global perspective on the origins of agriculture: the importance of unconscious selection. PhD thesis, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
30. Ladizinsky G. 1975. Collection of wild cereals in Upper Jordan Valley. Economic Botany 29: 264-267.
31. Loss SP, Siddique KHM, Jettner R, Martin LD. 1998. Responses of faba bean (Vicia faba L.) to sowing rate in south-western Australia I. Seed yield and economic optimum plant density. Australian Journal of Agricultural Research 49: 989-997.
32. Marcussen T, Sandve SR, Heier L, Spannagl M, Pfeifer M, The International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium, Jakobsen KS, Wulff BBH, Steuernagel B, Mayer KFX et al. 2014. Ancient hybridizations among the ancestral genomes of bread wheat. Science 345: 1250092.
33. Nerson H. 1980. Effects of population density and number of ears on wheat yield and its components. Field Crops Research 3: 225-234.
34. Neytcheva MS, Aarssen LW. 2008. More plant biomass results in more offspring production in annuals, or does it? Oikos 117: 1298-1307.
35. Oskoueiyan R, Kazempour Osaloo S, Maassoumi AA, Nejadsattari T, Mozaffarian V. 2010. Phylogenetic status of Vavilovia formosa (Fabaceae-Fabeae) based on nrDNA ITS and cpDNA sequences. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 38: 313-319.
36. Parker GA, Maynard Smith J. 1990. Optimality theory in evolutionary biology. Nature 348: 27-33.
37. Petersen G, Seberg O, Yde M, Berthelsen K. 2006. Phylogenetic relationships of Triticum and Aegilops and evidence for the origin of the A, B, and D genomes of common wheat (Triticum aestivum). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 39: 70-82.
38. Poorter H, Fiorani F, Stitt M, Schurr U, Finck A, Gibon Y, Usadel B, Munns R, Atkin OK, Tardieu F et al. 2012. The art of growing plants for experimental purposes: a practical guide for the plant biologist. Functional Plant Biology 39: 821-838.
39. Rambaut A, Drummond AJ. 2007. Tracer. [WWW document] URL http://beast.bio.ed.ac.uk/Tracer [accessed 21 July 2014].
40. Rees M, Venable DL. 2007. Why do big plants make big seeds? Journal of Ecology 95: 926-936.
41. Rindos D. 1984. The origins of agriculture: an evolutionary perspective. Orlando, FL, USA: Academic Press.
42. Savard M, Nesbitt M, Jones MK. 2006. The role of wild grasses in subsistence and sedentism: new evidence from the northern Fertile Crescent. World Archaeology 38: 179-196.
43. Smith BD. 2011. A cultural niche construction theory of initial domestication. Biology Theory 6(3, Sp. Iss. SI): 260-271.
44. Smith BD. 2014. Failure of optimal foraging theory to appeal to researchers working on the origins of agriculture worldwide. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 111: E2829.
45. Smith EA. 1983. Anthropological applications of optimal foraging theory - a critical review. Current Anthropology 24: 625-651.
46. Smykal P, Kenicer G, Flavell AJ, Corander J, Kosterin O, Redden RJ, Ford R, Coyne CJ, Maxted N, Ambrose MJ et al. 2011. Phylogeny, phylogeography and genetic diversity of the Pisum genus. Plant Genetic Resources - Characterization and Utilization 9: 4-18.
47. Spink JH, Semere T, Sparkes DL, Whaley JM, Foulkes MJ, Clare RW, Scott RK. 2000. Effect of sowing date on the optimum plant density of winter wheat. The Annals of Applied Biology 137: 179-188.
48. Stephens DW, Krebs JR. 1986. Foraging theory. Princeton, NJ, USA: Princeton University Press.
49. Stougaard RN, Xue QW. 2004. Spring wheat seed size and seeding rate effects on yield loss due to wild oat (Avena fatua) interference. Weed Science 52: 133-141.
50. Tzarfati R, Saranga Y, Barak V, Gopher A, Korol AB, Abbo S. 2013. Threshing efficiency as an incentive for rapid domestication of emmer wheat. Annals of Botany 112: 829-837.
51. Weiner J, Freckleton RP. 2010. Constant final yield. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 41: 173-192.
52. Weiss E, Wetterstrom W, Nadel D, Bar-Yosef O. 2004. The broad spectrum revisited: evidence from plant remains. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 101: 9551-9555.
53. Willcox G, Fornite S, Herveux L. 2008. Early Holocene cultivation before domestication in northern Syria. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 17: 313-325.
54. Winterhalder B, Kennett DJ. 2006. Behavioral ecology and the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture. In: Kennett DJ, Winterhalder B, eds. Behavioral ecology and the transition to agriculture. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA, USA: University of California Press, 1-21.
55. Wojciechowski MF, Lavin M, Sanderson MJ. 2004. A phylogeny of legumes (Leguminosae) based on analysis of the plastid matK gene resolves many well-supported subclades within the family. American Journal of Botany 91: 1846-1862.
56. Zeder MA. 2012. The broad spectrum revolution at 40: resource diversity, intensification, and an alternative to optimal foraging explanations. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 31: 241-264.
57. Zeder MA. 2014. Alternative to faith-based science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 111: E2827.
58. van Zeist W. 1999. Evidence for agricultural change in the Balikh basin, northern Syria. In: Gosden C, Hather J, eds. The prehistory of food: appetites for change. London, UK: Routledge, 350-373.
59. Zohary D, Hopf M, Weiss E. 2012. Domestication of plants in the Old World. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.