AUTHOR=Brǿnnvik Hester , von Wettberg Eric J. 

TITLE=Bird Dispersal as a Pre-Adaptation for Domestication in Legumes: Insights for Neo-Domestication

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Plant Science

VOLUME=Volume 10 - 2019

YEAR=2019

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science/articles/10.3389/fpls.2019.01293

DOI=10.3389/fpls.2019.01293

ISSN=1664-462X

ABSTRACT=The first chapter of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species famously used examples of human selection of domesticated plants and animals to lay the groundwork for the Theory of Evolution (Darwin 1859).  Since at least the works of Darwin (1868), domestication of plants and animals have been used as major examples of strong selection radically altering the morphology, architecture, and behavior of organisms on which our contemporary society relies for food, fiber and fuel.  Consequently, it is not surprising that crop domestication remains a vibrant area of research.  Despite this ongoing interest in the field of domestication, we greatly lack ecological and natural history studies of crop wild relatives in their wild settings.