The authors examined "three independent domestication events" — the precise, often long-term process by which a species ...

Explaining the process, a scientist said the domestication involves several integrated methods, including a “taming strategy” in which calves are raised by humans and fed cow’s milk. The method also ...

An evolutionary "arms race" for light and space drove the early domestication of wheat, according to new research that could ...

Rice has historically been a heat-loving plant. In fact, the wild ancestor of cultivated rice once grew primarily on the ...

Early wheat didn’t just grow—it fought. When humans began cultivating fields, plants that could outcompete their neighbors for sunlight and space quickly took over, evolving upright leaves and ...

A study published in Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa sheds new light on the westward spread of pearl millet ...

The research groups led by HAN Bin and WANG Jiawei from the Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences have cloned Endless Branches and Tillers 1 (EBT1), a key gene that determines whether wild ...

Did the Neolithic age in Greece begin as early as 11,000 BC? New evidence suggests indigenous roots beyond Fertile Crescent ...

A research team has uncovered the genomic basis behind why some vine tea varieties accumulate far more dihydromyricetin than others.

The Cromwell Harbor Foundation named two early-career scholars of extraordinary promise as the inaugural recipients of their Chrysalis Prize, awarding each scholar $250,000 in unrestricted support, ...