How did the domestication of Fertile Crescent grain crops increase their yields?

Tragedies and Crops: Understanding Natural Selection To Improve Cropping Systems

(2016) Niels P.R. Anten et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

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

(2015) Catherine Preece et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Plant domestication through an ecological lens

(2015) Rubén Milla et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

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

(2014) Jennifer Cunniff et al.   PLoS One

Shifts and disruptions in resource-use trait syndromes during the evolution of herbaceous crops

(2014) R. Milla et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Plant domestication versus crop evolution: a conceptual framework for cereals and grain legumes

(2014) Shahal Abbo et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Allometric analysis of the effects of density on reproductive allocation and Harvest Index in 6 varieties of wheat (Triticum)

(2013) Xiao-liang Qin et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Plant growth rates and seed size: a re-evaluation

(2012) Lindsay A. Turnbull et al.   ECOLOGY

Patterns and processes in crop domestication: an historical review and quantitative analysis of 203 global food crops

(2012) Rachel S. Meyer et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Partitioning the Components of Relative Growth Rate: How Important Is Plant Size Variation?

(2010) Mark Rees et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Constant Final Yield

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

Agricultural Origins: Centers and Noncenters; A Near Eastern Reappraisal

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

Phylogeny, phylogeography and genetic diversity of the Pisum genus

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

The tolerance-fecundity trade-off and the maintenance of diversity in seed size

(2010) H. C. Muller-Landau   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

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

Resource distribution and the trade-off between seed number and seed weight: a comparison across crop species

(2009) B.L. Gambín et al.   ANNALS OF APPLIED BIOLOGY

Animal evolution during domestication: the domesticated fox as a model

(2009) Lyudmila Trut et al.   BIOESSAYS

The costs and benefits of fast living

(2009) Karen E. Rose et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Ecophysiological traits in C3 and C4 grasses: a phylogenetically controlled screening experiment

(2009) Samuel H. Taylor et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

GROWTH RATES, SEED SIZE, AND PHYSIOLOGY: DO SMALL-SEEDED SPECIES REALLY GROW FASTER

(2008) Lindsay A. Turnbull et al.   ECOLOGY

The complex origins of domesticated crops in the Fertile Crescent

(2008) Terence A. Brown et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION