These are often domesticated plants which have been selected to improve their size and taste.

Domesticated plant species often differ from their wild relatives in predictable ways.

Edgewater is the oldest site in Iowa with evidence of domesticated plant use.

It is one of the earliest domesticated plants recorded.

So far, no domesticated plant remains have been turned up in Natufian archeological sites.

Human beings domesticated plants by selecting for obvious traits, like bigger fruit.

From a strictly utilitarian perspective, domesticated plants increased the carrying capacity of the land.

The variations that humans have wrought upon domesticated plants and animals are almost infinite.

They also made crude pottery and domesticated plants.

It may be a wild ancestor of the domesticated plant, or another closely related taxon.

Domesticated plants appeared in Iowa towards the end of the Archaic.

Selective breeding of domesticated plants was once the main way early farmers shaped organisms to suit their needs.

Though increasingly focused on domesticated plants and animals, the Vinča subsistence economy still made use of wild food resources.

First cultivated by humans around 8000 years ago it is one of the earliest examples of domesticated plants.

The timing of the change coincides with the introduction of domesticated plants and animals in Britain.

Plant remains recovered from the site suggest the inhabitants were in the earliest stages of adapting domesticated plants.

However, it is more probable that the name arose from it being moved around its native land as a domesticated plant."

Almost all the domesticated plants used today for food and agriculture were domesticated in the centers of origin.

The people of the Belcher site were full time agriculturalist, who grew a variety of domesticated plants.

Humans first domesticated plants for farming, then livestock animals to accompany the resulting sedentary societies.

Domesticated plants bear larger fruits and lack the prickly skin that is found in the wild plants.

Note that because of this genetic mutation maize is the only domesticated plant that does not grow in the wild.

This plant is a beneficial weed, repelling army worms and other pests from nearby domesticated plants.

When genetic engineers slip a gene for herbicide resistance into a crop, they hope that the domesticated plants won't pass it around.

Vavilovian mimicry describes weeds which come to share characteristics with a domesticated plant through artificial selection.