Colorado State University Center for Science Communication Solanaceae is the diverse plant family that includes peppers, eggplant, potato, and tomato. …
Solanaceae Diversity 1: Potato
Category: Domestication
Crop Diversity: A Virtual Crop Science Field Tour
Patrick Byrne, Meagan Schipanski, Deana Namuth-Covert This eBook provides a virtual field tour at Colorado State University’s Agricultural Research, Development …
Sunflower Domestication
Patrick Byrne Sunflowers are one of the few crops domesticated in what is now the U.S. This video describes …
Domestication of Tepary Beans
Patrick Byrne This video presents the wild ancestor of the tepary bean (Phaseolus acutifolius) and the domesticated form of …
Grain Amaranth
Patrick Byrne This video introduces the crop grain amaranth and explains some of the changes that took place during domestication …
Domestication of Beans
Patrick Byrne This video contrasts wild ancestors of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) with cultivated varieties and points out some …
Crop Wild Relatives and their Use in Plant Breeding
Gayle Volk and Patrick Byrne The purpose of this chapter is to demonstrate that food crops do not necessarily originate …
Colorado Field Crop Tour
Pat Byrne, Meagan Schipanski Colorado State University’s Agricultural Research, Development and Education Center (ARDEC) is located 4 miles north …
Case Study: Sunflower Domestication and Breeding
Patrick Byrne, Laura Marek The purpose of this chapter is to explain the history of sunflower domestication …
Case Study: Wheat Domestication and Breeding
Patrick Byrne The purpose of this chapter is to explain how wheat originated in the Fertile Crescent …