In our ongoing quest for alternative energy sources, researchers are looking more to plants that grow in the wild for use in biofuels, plants such as switchgrass. However, attempts to "domesticate" ...

This hardy, nutritious and tasty fruit is teaching scientists how to rapidly domesticate a plant into a sustainable and resilient crop using cutting-edge technology. F I G U R E 1 : Fruit of Physalis ...

Wilderness protected areas get eight billion visitors a year. And that's just on land. Underwater reserves add millions more to the tally. Which, considering these are "protected" areas, seems like an ...

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New research led by the University of Oxford indicates that human domestication of crops can alter the communities of microorganisms that are associated with plants. Intriguingly, independent ...

Although humans have domesticated quite a few species of plants and animals, they all appear to have followed a very similar course. In fact, due the relatively few independent occurrences of ...

The domestication of dogs from gray wolves several thousand years ago required at least one or two severe population bottlenecks. But in the last 300 years, isolating modern dog breeds involved ...