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Crop | Area of origin | Traits influenced under domestication | Source |
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Cereals | | | |
Rice | China | Reduction in grain shattering and seed dormancy; synchronization of seed maturation; reduction in tiller number; increase in tiller erectness; increase in panicle branches; Number of spikelets per panicle; reduction in hull and pericarp coloration and awn length | [10, 22, 23]
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Barley | Fertile crescent, and Israel-Jordan area | Reduction in grain shattering; separation of seeds from hulls | [9]
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Wheat | Southwest Asia (fertile crescent)
| Reduction in shattering of grains (nonbrittle rachis); free-threshing trait | [27–29]
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Maize | Mesoamerica | Increased apical dominance; production of seeds in relatively large numbers | [7, 8]
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Brassicas | | | |
Cabbage | — | Large number of leaves surrounding the terminal bud | [30] |
Cauliflower | — | Formation of inflorescence meristems | [31] |
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Legumes | | | |
Lentil | Mesoamerica | Seed dormancy | [32] |
Vigna | Southeast Asia | Increase in seed and pod size, nontwining growth habit, loss of seed dormancy, and seed dispersal ability | [24] |
Pea | Southwest Asia (fertile crescent) | Indehiscent pods; lack of dormancy dwarfness; less basal branches; large seeds; good seed quality day neutral flowering | [33] |
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Fibers | | | |
Cotton | Mexico and Peru | Fiber length and quality | [16, 25] |
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Vegetables | | | |
Tomato | Mesoamerica | Fruits’ size, shape, and structure | [4, 26] |
Potato | Andes and Amazonia | Shorter stolons, larger tubers, (often) colored and variously shaped tubers, and reduction of bitter tuber glycoalkaloids | [34] |
Squash | Mesoamerica | increased seed length and peduncle diameter, change in fruit shape and color | [35] |
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