Taming a Grass: The Science of Domestication

Non-shattering seed, loss of dormancy, one origin or two: the genetics and lectures on how humans rewrote a grass.

Playlist by @rice_domestication

12 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. Smarty Plants (2012) | Full Documentary — PBS America
2. An Evolutionary Journey through Domestication — Harvard Museum of Natural History
3. How Plants Domesticated Humans - AMNH SciCafe — American Museum of Natural History
4. Did We Domesticate Plants--or Did They Domesticate Us? The Answer Might Not be so Clear. — Scientific American
5. Crop domestication: why only wheat, rice & maize? - Mark Chapman — Gatsby Plant Science Education Programme
6. CARTA: The Evolution of Human Nutrition -- Richard Wrangham: Fire Starch Meat and Honey — University of California Television (UCTV)
7. The Origin of Rice Was Never What We Thought — DNA Finally Revealed The Truth — The First Harvest
8. The History of Rice — The Grain Humans Domesticated Twice — Hidden History
9. Understanding Reproductive Isolation Based on the Rice Model — Annual Reviews
10. The search for a gene that makes rice tolerant to flooding — The Explorer's Guide to Biology
11. Sub1: A Triumph of Marker Assisted Breeding — Eric Stevens
12. David Mackill - Stress Tolerant Rice Varieties: Examples of Development and Rapid Adoption — SciencexMedia at Global Development (Cornell University)