The founder crops or primary domesticates are a group of flowering plants that were domesticated by early farming communities in Southwest Asia and went on to form the basis of agricultural economies across Eurasia. As originally defined by Daniel Zohary and Maria Hopf, they consisted of three cereals (emmer wheat, einkorn wheat, and barley), four pulses (lentil, pea, chickpea, and bitter vetch), and flax. Subsequent research has indicated that many other species could be considered founder crops. These species were amongst the first domesticated plants in the world.
The foundercrops or primary domesticates are a group of flowering plants that were domesticated by early farming communities in Southwest Asia and went...
it is called crop field or crop cultivation. Most crops are harvested as food for humans or fodder for livestock. Important non-food crops include horticulture...
New World crops are those crops, food and otherwise, that are native to the New World (mostly the Americas) and were not found in the Old World before...
Genetically modified crops (GM crops) are plants used in agriculture, the DNA of which has been modified using genetic engineering methods. Plant genomes...
shores of the Sea of Galilee. By around 9500 BC, the eight Neolithic foundercrops – emmer wheat, einkorn wheat, hulled barley, peas, lentils, bitter vetch...
A collaboration of 20 research organizations, led by the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), sequenced CDC Frontier...
Agriculture portal History portal List of ancient dishes and foods Neolithic foundercrops Whole grain Conis, Elena (19 February 2011). "Ancient grains: The best...
Ehud; Zohary, Daniel (October 2011). "The Neolithic Southwest Asian FounderCrops: Their Biology and Archaeobotany". Current Anthropology. 52 (S4): S239–S240...
Jonathan Sauer (Historical Geography of Crop Plants, 2017). Unlike their wild ancestors, domesticated lentil crops have indehiscent pods and non-dormant...
Pea (Pisum in Latin) is a pulse, vegetable or fodder crop, but the word often refers to the seed or sometimes the pod of this flowering plant species,...
possibly affecting future crops. Canadian flax seed cultivars were reconstituted with Triffid-free seed used to plant the 2014 crop. Laboratories are certified...
and winter crops may have up to 35 tillers (shoots) per plant (depending on cultivar). Wheat roots are among the deepest of arable crops, extending as...
was one of the first crops domesticated in the Near East. It was widely cultivated in the ancient world, but is now a relict crop in mountainous regions...
In Africa, crops such as sorghum were domesticated. Agriculture developed in some 13 centres around the world, domesticating different crops and animals...
2014-10-17. L.L. Bellido, "Grain legumes for animal feed" in Neglected crops: 1492 from a different perspective, J.E. Bermejo and J. Leon, editors; Plant...
most important crops and were grown primarily for subsistence rather than the commercial market. Olives are an important traditional crop. In the late 19th...
highlands. Crops domesticated in the Sahel region include sorghum and pearl millet. The kola nut was first domesticated in West Africa. Other crops domesticated...
cereal crops. Buckwheat is only raised for grain where a brief time is available for growth, either because the buckwheat is an early or a second crop in...
Most importantly, the Fertile Crescent was home to the eight Neolithic foundercrops important in early agriculture (i.e., wild progenitors to emmer wheat...
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