Ecology and Evolution of Plants under Domestication in the Neotropics

Release on 2019-09-25 | by Alejandro Casas

”Dónde crecen los chiles en México?” in Los Chiles que le dan Sabor al Mundo. Contribuciones Multidisciplinarias, eds A. Aguilar-Meléndez, M. A. Vásquez Dávila, E. Katz, and M. R. Hernández Colorado (Xalapa: Universidad Veracruzana and ...

Ecology and Evolution of Plants under Domestication in the Neotropics

Author: Alejandro Casas
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 9782889630479
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The Neotropical area is a main setting of the earliest experiences of domestication ofplants, and evolutionary processes guided by humans, which continue being active inthe area. Studies comprised in this Research Topic show a general panorama aboutsimilarities and particularities of processes of domestication for different plant groupsand regions, some of them illustrate how the domestication processes originated anddiffused, how landscape domestication has operated and continues being practicedand others discuss some of the main challenges for designing policies for biosafetyand conservation of plant genetic resources. It is an attempt to identify main topicsfor research on evolution under domestication, and opportunities that researcherscan find in the Neotropics to understand how and why these processes occurredin the past and present.