Cultivation and domestication of wild pea

Cultivation and domestication of wild pea

Cultivation and domestication of wild pea
Cultivation and domestication of wild pea

Wild pea seed dormancy is mediated by a water-impermeable seed coat. Using wild and domesticated pea (Pisum elatius, P. humile and P. fulvum), Abbo et al. show that the agronomic implications of wild pea hard-seededness are incompatible with millennia of unconscious selection leading to domestication: poor establishment and associated net yield loss in cultivation is likely to have resulted in abandonment of the species, rather than continued unprofitable cultivation.

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