Once a crop is domesticated, the process of domestication continues, and the various secondary traits associated with the domestication syndrome continue to accumulate.
Papa et al. (2005) showed a higher loss of diversity and divergence between wild and domesticated populations at loci involved in the process of domestication.
"For the first time in history," she writes, "humans are trying to reverse, at least aesthetically, the process of domestication.
For the first time in history, humans are trying to reverse, at least aesthetically, the process of domestication.
The process of domestication appears to have involved selection and cultivation of the most promising and productive of plants long harvested in the wild.
There is debate within the scientific community over how the process of domestication works (For example, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestication) [7, 17, 18, 26, 28].
There is increasing evidence that the process of domestication itself occurred over the span of a great many generations of plants (and farmers).
In growing radiata pine (Pinus radiata D.Don), or any forest-tree crop, genotype, site and silviculture are key variables and are all central to the process of domestication.
The new work not only sheds light on where pigs come from, but it also speaks to how complex the process of domestication is compared with what we thought it was.
By drawing on these contrasts, this paper explores the hesitations that surrounded changing understandings of the role of capital city and its shifting symbolic landscapes, as well as the gradual process of domestication of the concept of a public park.
This chromosome 12 QTL may be the most important to study in relation to rice domestication because reduced dormancy must have been selected for early in the process of domestication.
