Near Eastern Plant Domestication: A History of Thought

Trends in Plant Science

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 491-511

  Abbo, Shahal ^a   Gopher, Avi ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

circumstantial domestication; core area one event domestication; crop evolution; evolutionary continuum; origin of agriculture in the Near East

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CROP; DOMESTICATION; EVOLUTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGRICULTURE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; DOMESTICATION;

EID: 85018552808     PISSN: 13601385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2017.03.010     Document Type: Review

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