The gene bank can hold as many as 120,000 varieties of plants. Many of the seeds come from crops as old as agriculture itself. They're sown by farmers in the Fertile Crescent region, where cultivation ...

The origins of agriculture, 10 000 years ago, led to profound changes in the biology of plants exploited as grain crops, through the process of domestication. This special case of evolution under ...

Learn more here. The “Fertile Crescent,” a term coined by University of Chicago Egyptologist James Henry Breasted, refers to a crescent-shaped region in Western Asia. Formed by the Tigris and ...

Ancient goat genomes reveal mosaic domestication in the Fertile Crescent Journal: Science Published: 2018-07-06 DOI: 10.1126/science.aas9411 Affiliations: 28 Authors: 40 Go to article ...

But a fifth of the genome showed links to the area in the Middle East between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, known as the Fertile Crescent, where Mesopotamian civilization flourished. “The ...

CLIMATEWIRE | The Middle East's Fertile Crescent is experiencing one of the most severe droughts in its history — and climate change has made it worse. Rising temperatures, driven by human ...

The gene bank can hold as many as 120,000 varieties of plants. Many of the seeds come from crops as old as agriculture itself. They're sown by farmers in the Fertile Crescent region, where ...

Many of the seeds come from crops as old as agriculture itself. They're sown by farmers in the Fertile Crescent region, where cultivation began some 11,000 years ago.