As a result, the diverse forms - found all along the wild-domestic continuum - can now be explored in more detail in the zooarchaeological record through the application of GMM techniques.
By studying a larger set of accessions spanning the wild to advanced continuum, it should be possible to use population genomic strategies to detect the genomic regions, and possibly the genes, that were unknowingly targeted by humans during the domestication process.
Myriad semi-domesticated forms and landraces span the wild-to-domesticated continuum, with over 50 cultivated forms and wild races being grouped into seven botanical varieties in the early seminal work [ 7].
Likewise, WFPs exist on a management continuum from "truly" wild to wild-cultivated and semi-domesticated species, excluding locally fully domesticated plants, where the management of a species might vary in time and space (Harris 1989).
Weedy populations are thus made of a wide diversity of phenotypes, constituting a continuum between wild and cultivated morphotypes.
This study suggests that hunter-gatherers have depended on the rainforest ecosystem as a habitat through the exploitation of resources such as wild yams along a continuum ranging between pure gathering and complete cultivation depending on local conditions.
In fact, according to the intensity of the selection process, the degree of change in populations can vary along a continuum from their wild ancestors to the domesticated populations, which cannot reproduce or survive without human intervention.
Thus, it appears that there is more evidence that species of the BLC form a genetic continuum in the wild than not, and explicit tests of overlap in phenotypic character states are still lacking.
2011) and exhibit a wide diversity of phenotypes, forming a continuum between typical wild plants (notably characterized by the presence of anthocyanin pigmentation in stem and head, seed dormancy and seed shattering, self-incompatibility, branching) and cultivated morphotypes (Muller et al. 2009).
There is no evidence of overlap in phenotypic character states among members of the group, so they qualify as species under the PSC; there is little or no evidence that they form a genetic continuum in the wild, so they also qualify under the BSC".
