Populations are locally adapted when populations have the highest relative fitness at their
home sites, and lower fitness in other parts of the range. Results from the extensive …

Domestication and plant breeding are ongoing 10,000-year-old evolutionary experiments
that have radically altered wild species to meet human needs. Maize has undergone a …

Whereas breeders have exploited diversity in maize for yield improvements, there has been
limited progress in using beneficial alleles in undomesticated varieties. Characterizing …

The evolutionary significance of hybridization and subsequent introgression has long been
appreciated, but evaluation of the genome-wide effects of these phenomena has only …

To infer the role of natural selection in shaping standing genetic diversity, it is necessary to
assess the genomewide impact of demographic history on nucleotide diversity. In this study …

Forest trees in general are out-crossing, long-lived, and at early stages of domestication.
Molecular evolution at neutral sites is very slow because of the long generation times. …

Understanding the present-day distribution of molecular variation requires knowledge about
the history of the species. Past colonization routes and locations of refugia of Scots pine (…

Populations of widely distributed species encounter and must adapt to local environmental
conditions. However, comprehensive characterization of the genetic basis of adaptation is …

Chromosomal inversions are thought to play a special role in local adaptation, through dramatic
suppression of recombination, which favors the maintenance of locally adapted alleles. …

As the cost of next-generation sequencing diminishes and genomic resources improve,
crop wild relatives are well positioned to make major contributions to the field of ecological …