Journal article
Plant domestication through an ecological lens.
- Milla R Departamento de Biología y Geología, Área de Biodiversidad y Conservación, Escuela Superior de Ciencias Experimentales y Tecnología, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, c/Tulipán s/n, Móstoles 28933, Spain. Electronic address: ruben.milla@gmail.com.
- Osborne CP Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK.
- Turcotte MM Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich, Universitätstrasse 16, Zürich, 8092, Switzerland.
- Violle C Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Montpellier 5, France.
- 2015-07-04
Published in:
- Trends in ecology & evolution. - 2015
constraints
cultivation
domestication
ecology
natural selection
phenotype
Biological Evolution
Crops, Agricultural
Ecological and Environmental Phenomena
Genetic Fitness
Phenotype
Selection, Genetic
English
Our understanding of domestication comes largely from archeology and genetics. Here, we advocate using current ecological theory and methodologies to provide novel insights into the causes and limitations of evolution under cultivation, as well as into the wider ecological impacts of domestication. We discuss the importance of natural selection under cultivation, that is, the forces promoting differences in Darwinian fitness between plants in crop populations and of constraints, that is, limitations of diverse nature that, given values for trait X, shorten the range of variation of trait Y, during the domestication process. Throughout this opinion paper, we highlight how ecology can yield insight into the effects of domestication on plant traits, on crop feedback over ecological processes, and on how species interactions develop in croplands.
- Language
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- English
- Open access status
- closed
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- DOI 10.1016/j.tree.2015.06.006
- PMID 26138385
- Persistent URL
- https://sonar.ch/global/documents/127112
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