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SUMMARY:Crop pioneers across Eurasia: insights from phylogeographic analys
 is using SSRs - Harriet Hunt\, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Resea
 rch
DTSTART:20120127T130000Z
DTEND:20120127T133000Z
UID:TALK35541@talks.cam.ac.uk
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DESCRIPTION:The greatest research investment in crop plants focuses on the
  three species that have the highest global economic importance today: whe
 at\, rice and maize. This is true not only for research in biology and gen
 etics\, but also in the history and domestication of cultivated plants. Ho
 wever\, there is increasing interest in a number of ‘neglected crops’.
  These crops have the potential both to expand the depth and geographical 
 breadth of our understanding of prehistoric agriculture\, a development th
 at transformed human-plant relations\, and address food security challenge
 s in the future through their potential for developing more ecologically r
 obust cultivation systems. \n\nPhylogeographic analysis complements archae
 obotanical work to trace the evolution and spread of domesticated plants. 
 This talk presents genetic results on two of the earliest crops that cross
 ed the ecologically-challenging Eurasian steppe region\, providing genetic
  signatures of cross-continental cereal highways that anticipate the Silk 
 Roads by several thousand years.\n
LOCATION:Department of Plant Sciences\, Large Lecture Theatre
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