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Key Genes of Crop Domestication and Breeding: Molecular Analyses

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Progress in Botany

Part of the book series: Progress in Botany ((BOTANY,volume 63))

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The life of human beings depends on a sufficient supply with fruits, grains and vegetables, which are consumed either directly, or fed to livestock. Without crop plants such as rice, maize, wheat, tomato, potato, beans, apples and so on, human civilization as we know it would not exist. The importance of crop plants for human culture thus can hardly be overestimated. Most calories consumed by humans and livestock derive from cereals, the three globally most important of which are wheat (Triticum aestivum), rice (Oryza sativa) and maize (Zea mays ssp. mays).

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  1. Abteilung Molekulare Pflanzengenetik, Max-Planck-Institut für Züchtungsforschung, Carl-von-Linné-Weg 10, 50829, Köln, Germany

    Prof. Dr. Günter Theißen

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    K. Esser

  2. Darmstadt, Germany

    U. Lüttge

  3. Bielefeld, Germany

    W. Beyschlag

  4. Jena, Germany

    F. Hellwig

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Theißen, G. (2002). Key Genes of Crop Domestication and Breeding: Molecular Analyses. In: Esser, K., Lüttge, U., Beyschlag, W., Hellwig, F. (eds) Progress in Botany. Progress in Botany, vol 63. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56276-1_7

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