Morrell Peter L, Clegg Michael T
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-2525, USA.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 Feb 27;104(9):3289-94. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0611377104. Epub 2007 Feb 21.
Cereal agriculture originated with the domestication of barley and early forms of wheat in the Fertile Crescent. There has long been speculation that barley was domesticated more than once. We use differences in haplotype frequency among geographic regions at multiple loci to infer at least two domestications of barley; one within the Fertile Crescent and a second 1,500-3,000 km farther east. The Fertile Crescent domestication contributed the majority of diversity in European and American cultivars, whereas the second domestication contributed most of the diversity in barley from Central Asia to the Far East.
谷物农业起源于新月沃地大麦和早期小麦品种的驯化。长期以来,人们一直猜测大麦被驯化不止一次。我们利用多个基因座地理区域间单倍型频率的差异,推断出大麦至少经历了两次驯化;一次发生在新月沃地,另一次发生在向东1500 - 3000公里处。新月沃地的驯化贡献了欧美栽培品种的大部分多样性,而第二次驯化则贡献了从中亚到远东地区大麦的大部分多样性。