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

The 'Human Mind' as a common denominator in plant domestication

(2014) S. Abbo et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Functional Traits Differ between Cereal Crop Progenitors and Other Wild Grasses Gathered in the Neolithic Fertile Crescent

(2014) Jennifer Cunniff et al.   PLoS One

Alternative to faith-based science

(2014) M. A. Zeder   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Reply to Smith: On distinguishing between models, hypotheses, and theoretical frameworks

(2014) K. J. Gremillion et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Failure of optimal foraging theory to appeal to researchers working on the origins of agriculture worldwide

(2014) B. D. Smith   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Reply to Zeder: Maintaining a diverse scientific toolkit is not an act of faith

(2014) K. J. Gremillion et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Particularism and the retreat from theory in the archaeology of agricultural origins

(2014) K. J. Gremillion et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ancient hybridizations among the ancestral genomes of bread wheat

(2014) T. Marcussen et al.   SCIENCE

Threshing efficiency as an incentive for rapid domestication of emmer wheat

(2013) Raanan Tzarfati et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

On the ‘lost’ crops of the neolithic Near East

(2013) Shahal Abbo et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

The art of growing plants for experimental purposes: a practical guide for the plant biologist

(2012) Hendrik Poorter et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

Experimental growing of wild pea in Israel and its bearing on Near Eastern plant domestication

(2011) S. Abbo et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Early agricultural pathways: moving outside the ‘core area’ hypothesis in Southwest Asia

(2011) Dorian Q. Fuller et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

New grass phylogeny resolves deep evolutionary relationships and discovers C4 origins

(2011)   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Cultivation as slow evolutionary entanglement: comparative data on rate and sequence of domestication

(2011) Dorian Q. Fuller et al.   VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY

Constant Final Yield

(2010) Jacob Weiner et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Phylogenetic status of Vavilovia formosa (Fabaceae-Fabeae) based on nrDNA ITS and cpDNA sequences

(2010) Roghayeh Oskoueiyan et al.   BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMATICS AND ECOLOGY

Agricultural Origins: Centers and Noncenters; A Near Eastern Reappraisal

(2010) Shahal Abbo et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN PLANT SCIENCES

COMPLEX EVOLUTIONARY TRANSITIONS AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF C3-C4 INTERMEDIATE FORMS OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS IN MOLLUGINACEAE

(2010) Pascal-Antoine Christin et al.   EVOLUTION

Phylogeny, phylogeography and genetic diversity of the Pisum genus

(2010) Petr Smýkal et al.   Plant Genetic Resources-Characterization and Utilization

Yield stability: an agronomic perspective on the origin of Near Eastern agriculture

(2010) Shahal Abbo et al.   VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY

Reassessing the evidence for the cultivation of wild crops during the Younger Dryas at Tell Abu Hureyra, Syria

(2010) Sue Colledge et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY

More plant biomass results in more offspring production in annuals, or does it?

(2008) Marina S. Neytcheva et al.   OIKOS