… Amaranth was found to have higher nutritional value than rice and contains more than
three times the average amount of calcium than major cereals and is high in iron, magnesium, …

The genus Amaranthus consists of 50–70 species and harbors several cultivated and
weedy species of great economic importance. A small number of suitable traits, phenotypic …

Grain amaranths (Amaranthus spp.) have been cultivated for thousands of years in Central
and South America. Their grains are of high nutritional value, but the low yield needs to be …

Sorghum and maize share a close evolutionary history that can be explored through
comparative genomics 1 , 2 . To perform a large-scale comparison of the genomic variation …

The Neolithic Revolution brought about the transition from hunting and gathering to sedentary
societies, laying the foundation for the development of modern civilizations. The primary …

Plant root hairs increase the root surface to enhance the uptake of sparingly soluble and
immobile nutrients, such as the essential nutrient phosphorus, from the soil. Here, root hair traits …

… We would like to thank Patrick Thorwarth and Bernd Stetter for recommendations on machine
learning, and CSI Davis, Graham Coop and Michael Turelli for helpful discussion. We are …

… Markus G Stetter , Markus G Stetter … have dark seeds, whereas most cultivated grain amaranth
landraces have white seeds (Stetter et al. 2017b). The reasons for selection of white seed …

Since their origin 160 million years ago, flowering plants have rapidly diversified into more
than 300,000 species, adapting to a striking array of habitats and conditions. Given their …

The domestication syndrome comprises phenotypic changes that differentiate crops from
their wild ancestors. We compared the genomic variation and phenotypic differentiation of the …