#plantdomestication — Public Fediverse posts

New PNAS study: those “domestic-sized” barley grains from 11,000-year-old Jordan sites weren’t bred bigger. They just grew where it was wetter. Genetic selection came later than we thought. #Archaeobotany #Neolithic #PlantDomestication https://www.anthropology.net/p/rain-not-selection-what-actually

New climate models show wild wheat and barley were less widespread 12,000 years ago than today—and got scarcer as the climate warmed. #Archaeology #NeolithicRevolution #PlantDomestication #Archaeobotany https://www.anthropology.net/p/when-the-climate-got-better-the-plants

A specialist in the #genomics of crop #PlantDomestication and adaptation, Maud Tenaillon has been elected Editor-in-Chief of the journal Genome Biology and Evolution (GBE) by the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE).

More information : https://moulon.inrae.fr/en/news/2025/02/maud-tenaillon-editor-in-chief-of-the-journal-genome-biology-and-evolution-from-january-2025/

#maudtenaillon @GenomeBiolEvol @officialSMBE @cnrs @cnrsbiologie #ideev

#Archaeology: Did #Plants #Domesticate Humans? Watch 'The First Entanglement' [video]

By Regina Sobel on January 26, 2023

"Those who study places like #Çatalhöyük see a complex interplay between human actions and the workings of nature and genetics. Ceren Kabukçu, an archaeobotanist who researches ancient plant specimens, explains how a random mutation in wild wheat produced characteristics that pleased early farmers so much that they selected those plants over and over again until the mutated plants became domesticated. But it didn’t end there. The domesticated wheat evolved to such a degree that it could no longer reproduce without the aid of human hands. Much of what we eat today is rooted in this codependency."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/video/did-plants-domesticate-humans-watch-the-first-entanglement/

#Farming #PlantDomestication #Archaeobotany #Archaeology #Histodon #History #Catalhoyuk #FoodHistory

New NIOO publication: Integrating chemical plant trait- and ecological-based approaches to better understand differences in #insect #herbivory between #cultivated and #natural systems. #communityecology #plantdomestication
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2023.108643#spatialecology