Identifying natural allelic variation that underlies quantitative trait variation remains a fundamental
problem in genetics. Most studies have employed either simple synthetic populations …

Global environmental changes strongly impact wild and domesticated species biology and
their associated ecosystem services. For crops, global warming has led to significant …

Biodiversity, phylogeography and population genetic studies will be revolutionized by
access to large data sets thanks to next‐generation sequencing methods. In this study, we …

Chloroplast DNA sequences are of great interest for population genetics and phylogenetic
studies. However, only a small set of markers are commonly used. Most of them have been …

The human diet depends on very few crops. Current diversity in these crops is the result of a
long interaction between farmers and cultivated plants, and their environment. Man largely …

… This work was a part of Nora Scarcelli's PhD research on the dynamics of yam diversity in
Benin. Nora completed her PhD in November 2005 and has moved to a postdoctoral position …

Sustainable food production in the context of climate change necessitates diversification of
agriculture and a more efficient utilization of plant genetic resources. Fonio millet (Digitaria …

African rice (Oryza glaberrima) was domesticated independently from Asian rice. The geographical
origin of its domestication remains elusive. Using 246 new whole-genome sequences…

There have been intense debates over the geographic origin of African crops and agriculture.
Here, we used whole-genome sequencing data to infer the domestication origin of pearl …

While there has been progress in our understanding of the origin and history of agriculture
in sub-Saharan Africa, a unified perspective is still lacking on where and how major crops …