Science news articles about 'domesticated plants'

... finds are further documentation of prehistoric Mexican peoples’ significant contribution to our repertoire of domesticated plants, Pohl said. Besides sunflowers, crops of Mexican origin include corn, ...

... fragmentary. Much smaller parts of the maize plant, like cellular silica deposits, called ... activity, maize pollen alone is not definitive evidence of domesticated plants. Phytoliths are another type ...

... with more branching, increased plant size or other favorable characteristics. By comparing the domesticated plant to other wild rice species, they discovered a lot of genetic variation in rice over ...

... s School of Medicine and co-author of the Science paper. "Our work is on wolves, but there are many other examples of domestic plants — wheat, rice, maize, soybean — and animals — bison, cattle, cats ...

... with traditionally utilized food resources and created the technological context for later development of domesticated plants and an agro-pastoralist economy. "Building granaries may, at the same ...

... probably migrated into major areas of central and eastern Europe about 7,500 years ago, bringing domesticated plants and animals with them, says Barbara Bramanti from Mainz ...

... the world's oldest known granaries. Scientists provide evidence that these granaries precede the emergence of fully domesticated plants and large-scale sedentary communities by at least 1,000 years.