Molecular Diversity at 18 Loci in 321 Wild and 92 Domesticate Lines Reveal No Reduction of Nucleotide Diversity during Triticum monococcum (Einkorn) Domestication: Implications for the Origin of Agriculture

• Published in: Molecular biology and evolution Vol. 24; no. 12; pp. 2657 - 2668
• Main Authors: Kilian, B., Özkan, H., Walther, A., Kohl, J., Dagan, T., Salamini, F., Martin, W.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Oxford University Press 01.12.2007
• Subjects: aflp; Agriculture; barley hordeum-vulgare; Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Biokemi och molekylärbiologi; cultivation; Developmental Biology; Domestication; Evolutionary biology; Genetic diversity; Genetic Variation; Genetics; Genetik; genome; Geography; Haplotypes; Models, Genetic; Molecular biology; near-east; Nucleotides - genetics; oryza-sativa; Paleontology; Phenotype; polymorphism; rice; selection; Sequence Analysis, DNA; Speciation; tetraploid wheats; Triticum - genetics; Triticum aestivum; Triticum monococcum; Utvecklingsbiologi; Wheat; haplotypes; Fertile Crescent; evolution; molecular diversity; einkorn wheat

The diploid wheat Triticum monococcum L. (einkorn) was among the first crops domesticated by humans in the Fertile Crescent 10,000 years ago. During the last 5,000 years, it was replaced by tetraploid and hexaploid wheats and largely forgotten by modern breeders. Einkorn germplasm is thus devoid of...