This paper investigates the relationship between domestication and the root system of bread wheat.
This paper investigates the relationship between domestication, and the root systems of landraces, and the parents of early, mid- and late green-revolution bread wheat cultivars.
His work -- like Kate Yourke's "Hypnagogic Nostalgia: Home Is Where the Hearth Is," which also uses video to inject narrative -- plays with the dichotomy between domestication and dislocation, using familiar landmarks to trigger private emotional responses.
However, the generality of the relationship between domestication and patterns of molecular evolution has not been established.
Of these, the interaction between domestication status and sample fraction was the most important factor explaining 4.7%% of the variation (Additional file 5: Table S4).
However, the three-way interaction between domestication, fertilizer level, and fertilizer distribution for average root diameter (Fig. 1) demonstrates that wild barley exhibited greater within-plant plasticity for this trait and that this plasticity was most pronounced under low nutrient levels.
Stone or clay figurines of cats found in Syria, Turkey and Israel encouraged speculation of a link between cat domestication and the origins of agriculture in the region, even before 7500 B.C.
Overall, the authors found that trade-offs between drought tolerance and several aspects of plant growth, including growth rate, allocation to flowering, and root architecture, govern evolution during sunflower domestication and the invasion of disturbed habitat.
The authors of that study draw parallels between gene clusters for domestication and those for Batesian mimicry in butterflies.
All four are differences by intent between the root replacement and root conserving strategies.
Reduction in genetic diversity might lead to lower capacity for plasticity in general, and root plasticity in particular, but we are not aware of any studies that have specifically examined the effects of domestication on root plasticity.
