Were Fertile Crescent crop progenitors higher yielding than other wild species that were never domesticated?

During the origin of agriculture in the Fertile Crescent, the broad spectrum of wild plant species exploited by hunter-gatherers narrowed dramatically. The mechanisms responsible for this specialization and the associated domestication of plants are intensely debated. We investigated why some specie...

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Main Authors: Preece, Catherine, Livarda, Alexandra, Wallace, Michael, Martin, Gemma, Charles, Michael, Christin, Pascal-Antoine, Jones, Glynis, Rees, Mark, Osborne, Colin P.
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Published: Wiley 2015
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/31201/