Plant domestication [electronic resource] / Duncan Vaughan.
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FilmSeries: Henry Stewart talksBiomedical & life sciences collection. Agricultural genetics: Publisher: London : Henry Stewart Talks, 2014Description: 1 online resource (1 streaming video file (32 min.) : color, sound)Subject(s): Crop improvement | Crops -- Evolution | Domestication | Ethnobotany | New crops -- Breeding | Plant breeding | Plant mutation breeding | Plants, Cultivated | Crops, Agricultural -- genetics | Plants -- geneticsOnline resources: Click here to access online | Series Animated audio-visual presentation with synchronized narration.
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Contents: Domestication, cultivation, evolution and co-evolution -- Centers of crop origin and centers of crop diversity -- Wild plant characteristics verses domesticated plant characteristics -- The domestication syndrome, bottle neck of domestication, selective sweeps -- Mutation, polyploidy, translocation, duplication and retro-transposons -- Ex-situ, In-situ and On-farm conservation.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.