Plant Domestication

Latest research

1. Harnessing the underutilized blood fruit (Haematocarpus validus (Miers) Bakh. f. ex Forman) through forest-to-farm transition for conservation and sustainable cultivation

   • Sanren Pungjung
   • H. G. Kencharaddi
   • S. Dinesha

   in Discover Plants

   Article Open access 19 October 2025

   

2. The pomegranate (Punica granatum L. cv. ‘Wonderful’) genome and P. protopunica shed light on pomegranate domestication. Is Daru a wild stock?

   • Alexandra Slonimsky
   • Oleg Lovky
   • Ron Ophir

   in BMC Genomics

   Article Open access 17 October 2025

   

3. Deconstructing soybean domestication

   • Jun Lyu

   in Nature Plants

   Article 15 October 2025

   

4. Insights into North African endemic plants and their applications in the food industry with particular emphasis on their quality and safety assessment

   • Hesham R. El-Seedi
   • Hanen Najjaa
   • Mohamed Neffati

   in Beni-Suef University Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences

   Article Open access 10 October 2025

   

5. Wild barley (Hordeum vulgare L. subsp. Spontaneum (C. Koch) Thell.): a noxious weed species in Iran and an untapped genetic resource for barley cultivar development- molecular approach

   • Mojtaba Hosseini
   • Mehdi Mojab
   • Ebrahim Mamnoie

   in Acta Physiologiae Plantarum

   Article Open access 09 October 2025

   

6. Lethal genes in plants

   • Fatin H. Al-Dulaimi
   • Laith M. J. Al-Shamma
   • Mohammed A. H. Alnajjar

   in Brazilian Journal of Botany

   Article 09 October 2025

7. Tracing the ancestry of barley in time and space

   in Nature

   Article 08 October 2025

   

8. Origin of Domestic Dogs in Light of Recent Genetic Data

   • O. M. Ryabinina
   • D. V. Politov

   in Russian Journal of Genetics

   Article 07 October 2025

9. Ann Shteir (Hg.) 2022. Flora’s Fieldworkers. Women and Botany in Nineteenth-Century Canada. Tobias Delfs 2024. Koloniale Naturforschung und Südasien. Die Beteiligung deutscher Botaniker an der imperialen Wissensproduktion in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts

   • Anne Sophie Overkamp

   in NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin

   Article Open access 06 October 2025

10. Flora and Vegetation of The Teide National Park

    • Victoria Eugenia Martín Osorio
    • Beatriz Hernández Bolaños
    • Wolfredo Wildpret de la Torre

    Book 2025

    

11. Southern Italy: birthplace of the Cocozelle squash, Cucurbita pepo subsp. pepo, Cocozelle Group

    • Harry S. Paris
    • Amit Gur

    in Euphytica

    Article Open access 04 October 2025

    

12. Tracking domestication signals across populations of North American raccoons (Procyon lotor) via citizen science-driven image repositories

    • Artem Apostolov
    • Alanis Bradley
    • Raffaela Lesch

    in Frontiers in Zoology

    Article Open access 02 October 2025

    

13. Assessment of indigenous knowledge on propagation of native trees in the agro-ecological zone of Ghana

    • Abdul-Aziz Adam
    • Dzigbodi Adzo Doke
    • Albert Kojo Quainoo

    in Agroforestry Systems

    Article 29 September 2025

    

14. Genetic basis and role of exotic accessions in cultivated cotton fiber quality improvement

    • Ankush Sharma
    • Mingrui Xu
    • Andrew H. Paterson

    in Theoretical and Applied Genetics

    Article Open access 27 September 2025

    

15. Lantana Camara

    • Moonisa Aslam Dervash
    • Abrar Yousuf
    • Munir Ozturk

    in SpringerBriefs in Plant Science

    Book 2025

    

16. New evidence reveals dispersal of pearl millet from West Africa to South Asia by 2500 BCE

    • Carolina Jiménez-Arteaga
    • Óscar Parque
    • Marco Madella

    in Scientific Reports

    Article Open access 25 September 2025

    

17. A haplotype-based evolutionary history of barley domestication

    • Yu Guo
    • Murukarthick Jayakodi
    • Martin Mascher

    in Nature

    Article Open access 24 September 2025

    

18. Book Reviews

    • Wendy L. Applequist

    in Economic Botany

    Article 19 September 2025

19. Biases and epistemic injustice in taxonomy: the case of arvense and semiwild plants flattened in domestication literature

    • Aldo Federico Palafox-Hernandez
    • Natalia Martínez-Ainsworth
    • Lev Jardón-Barbollla

    in Biology & Philosophy

    Article Open access 16 September 2025

    

20. On the origin of the late-flowering ppd-H1 allele in barley

    • Rajiv Sharma
    • Salar Shaaf
    • Benjamin Kilian

    in Theoretical and Applied Genetics

    Article Open access 10 September 2025

    

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