ArticleEcology letters2019
Plant domestication disrupts biodiversity effects across major crop types.
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- The productive performance of intercropping.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Pooled it
- Reconstructing the evolutionary history of herbaceous crops through trait-based ecology.American journal of botany · 2025Review
- Comparative chloroplast genome analyses of cultivated and wild Capsicum species shed light on evolution and phylogeny.BMC plant biology · 2024Article
- Domestication and the evolution of crops: variable syndromes, complex genetic architectures, and ecological entanglements.The Plant cell · 2024Review
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- Shift in beneficial interactions during crop evolution.Evolutionary applications · 2022Review
- Ecological and evolutionary approaches to improving crop variety mixtures.Nature ecology & evolution · 2021Review
- Functional rarity and evenness are key facets of biodiversity to boost multifunctionality.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Breeding Beyond Monoculture: Putting the "Intercrop" Into Crops.Frontiers in plant science · 2021Review
- Both selection and plasticity drive niche differentiation in experimental grasslands.Nature plants · 2020Article
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Abstract
Plant diversity fosters productivity in natural ecosystems. Biodiversity effects might increase agricultural yields at no cost in additional inputs. However, the effects of diversity on crop assemblages are inconsistent, probably because crops and wild plants differ in a range of traits relevant to plant-plant interactions. We tested whether domestication has changed the potential of crop mixtures to over-yield by comparing the performance and traits of major crop species and those of their wild progenitors under varying levels of diversity. We found stronger biodiversity effects in mixtures of wild progenitors, due to larger selection effects. Variation in selection effects was partly explained by within-mixture differences in leaf size. Our results indicate that domestication might disrupt the ability of crops to benefit from diverse neighbourhoods via reduced trait variance. These results highlight potential limitations of current crop mixtures to over-yield and the potential of breeding to re-establish variance and increase mixture performance.
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