The evolution of crops that do not need us anymore

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Norman C Ellstrand. New Phytol. 2019 Oct.

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. 2019 Oct;224(2):550-551.

doi: 10.1111/nph.16145.

¹ Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521-0124, USA.

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Keywords: agricultural biotechnology risk assessment; de-domestication; evolution of invasive species; ferality; rapid evolution; weed evolution.

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