Extended Data Fig. 3: Organ under selection. | Nature Plants

Extended Data Fig. 3: Organ under selection.

From: Early human selection of crops’ wild progenitors explains the acquisitive physiology of modern cultivars

Extended Data Fig. 3

Ecophysiological traits between the different types of crops’ wild progenitors depending on the organ under selection (either fruit/flower, leaf/shoot, or seed). Wild species that were never domesticated were included in the plot (*None). Dots are trait mean of species. Boxplots show the median and 25th and 75th percentiles of the data, with whiskers extending to 1.5 times the interquartile range. Models were tested with phylogenetic generalized least squares (PGLS). Different letters indicate significant differences among types of crops’ wild progenitors at P < 0.05, after multiple comparisons tests with false-discovery rate correction. Abbreviations: Aarea, net photosynthetic rate per unit area; gwv, stomatal conductance to water vapour; [Nmass], mass-based leaf N concentration; SLA, specific leaf area; and δ13C, 13C isotopic composition. For SLA, one wild progenitor selected for its roots was removed from the multiple comparisons tests because there was no other data belonging to this category.

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