Functional traits differ between cereal crop progenitors and other wild grasses gathered in the Neolithic fertile crescent.

The reasons why some plant species were selected as crops and others were abandoned during the Neolithic emergence of agriculture are poorly understood. We tested the hypothesis that the traits of Fertile Crescent crop progenitors were advantageous in the fertile, disturbed habitats surrounding earl...

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Main Authors: Jennifer Cunniff, Sarah Wilkinson, Michael Charles, Glynis Jones, Mark Rees, Colin P Osborne
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24489941/pdf/?tool=EBI