In relation to the origin and spread of grasses, domestication is a
recent event confined to about the last ten thousand years and to
relatively few grasses. Part I of Grass Evolution and Domestication
considers, from an evolutionary point of view, grass taxonomy, the
origin and diversification of C4 photosynthesis, S-Z
self-incompatibility and apomixis. It also includes a discussion of
how the grass inflorescence and the spikelet could have originated.
In Part II the origins of domestication are explored, both for
cereals and for grasses which have latterly come to have either
amenity or ecological significance. For the major cereals,
domestication now involves not only classical plant breeding but
also the application of molecular techniques to obtain new
varieties with desirable characteristics. The world's three most
important cereals, wheat, maize and rice, are therefore presented
as model systems in an attempt to explore the interaction of plant
breeding, cytogenetics and molecular biology.
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