Credit hours
In-class work per week |
Practice per week |
Credits |
Duration |
Total |
3 |
1 |
8 |
15 weeks |
120 hours |
Instructor
Elizabeth Ann Veasey
Giancarlo Conde Xavier Oliveira
Objective
The study of the historical, anthropological, biological and genetic processes involved in domestication of plants, as a basis for understanding the genetic and ecological structure of current crops and their significance from an evolutionary point of view and as a source of germplasm for breeding and biotechnology programs. It also aims to study the impact of genetic changes during domestication of plants.
Content
The beginnings of human societies and agriculture; Biological evolution and cultural evolution; Origin of agriculture; Sources of evidence of plant origin and domestication; Classification of cultivated plants; Centers of origin, diversity and domestication of cultivated plants; Patterns of domestication: domestication of plants and landscapes; Evolutionary dynamics of domestication: a) domestication as a result of different selection pressures: domestication syndromes, b) reduction and maintenance of genetic diversity under domestication; Selection under domestication; Selection signatures; Speciation under domestication; Distinction between wild and cultivated plants; Evolution of weeds; Dispersion of cultivated plants; Some crops and their evolutionary history; Germplasm: conservation and use in breeding; "Ex situ", "in situ" and "on farm" conservation of plants; Implications of the use of transgenic plants and gene flow between domesticated (transgenic) plants and wild plants and/or local varieties.
Bibliography
Books:
BARBIERI, R.L.; STUMPF, E.R.T. (2008) Origem e evolução de plantas cultivadas. Brasília, Distrito Federal: Embrapa Informação Tecnológica; Pelotas: Embrapa Clima Temperado.
COWAN, C.W.; WATSON, P.J. (2006) The Origins of Agriculture: an International Perspective. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press.
FRANKEL, H.; BROWN, H.D.; BURDON, J.J. (1995) The Conservation of Plant Biodiversity. Cambridge Cambridge University Press.
GEPTS, P.; FAMULA, T.R.; BETTINGER, R.L.; BRUSH, S.B.; DAMANIA, A.B.; McGUIRE, P.E.; QUALSET, C.O. (2012) Biodiversity in Agriculture: Domestication, Evolution, and Sustainability. New York: Cambridge University Press.
KOLE, C (2011) Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.
LADIZINSKY, G. (1998) Plant Evolution under Domestication. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
HANCOCK, J.F. (2012) Plant Evolution and the Origin of Crop Species. 3rd. Ed. Wallingford: CABI Publishing.
HARLAN, J.R. (1992) Crops and Man. Madison: American Society of Agronomy.
HEISER, C.B. (1973) Seed to Civilization. W.H. San Francisco: Freeman.
PIPERNO, D.; PEARSALL, D. (1998) The Origin of Agriculture in the Neotropics. San Diego: Academic Press.
RINDOS, D. (1984) The Origin of Agriculture: an Evolutionary Perspective. New York: Academic Press .
SIMMONDS, N.W.; SMARTT, J. (1995) Evolution of Crop Plants. London: Longman.
ZEDER, M.A.; BRADLEY, D.G.; EMSHWILLER, E.; SMITH, B.D. (2006) Documenting domestication: new genetic and archaeological paradigms. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
ZOHARY, D.; HOPF, M.; WEISS, E. (2012) Domestication of Plants in the Old World: The origin and spread of domesticated plants in Southwest Asia, Europe, and the Mediterranean Basin. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Review articles:
Gepts, P. (2014) The contribution of genetic and genomic approaches to plant domestication studies. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 18: 51-59.
Meyer, R.S.; Purugganan, M.D. (2013) Evolution of crop species: genetics of domestication and diversification. Nature Reviews 14: 840-852.
Meyer et al. (2012) Patterns and processes in crop domestication: an historical review and quantitative analysis of 203 global food crops. New Phytologist 196: 29-48.
Rottenberg, A. (2017) Has agriculture dispersed worldwide from a single origin? Genet Resour Crop Evol 64:1107-1113.
Smýkal P, Nelson MN, Berger JD, von Wettberg EJB (2018) The impact of genetic changes during crop domestication. Agronomy 8: 119. doi:10.3390/agronomy8070119.
Veasey et al. (2011) Processos evolutivos e a origem das plantas cultivadas. Ciência Rural, 41: 1218-1228.