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. 2016 Oct 3;31(2):387–397. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.12760

Table 1.

Summary of the 17 species used in this study and their domestication status (crop or progenitor), noting whether each crop and its progenitor are primary (1°) or secondary (2°) domesticates. Primary domesticate denotes one of the first species to be domesticated (c. 10 000 years ago), whereas secondary domesticate refers to a species thought to be domesticated much later, possibly as weeds of cultivation

Species Domestication status
Avena sativa Crop (2° domesticate)
Avena sterilis Progenitor (2° domesticate)
Cicer arietinum Crop (1° domesticate)
Cicer reticulatum Progenitor (1° domesticate)
Hordeum vugare subsp. spontaneum Progenitor (1° domesticate)
Hordeum vulgare subsp. vulgare Crop (1° domesticate)
Lens culinaris subsp. culinaris Crop (1° domesticate)
L. culinaris subsp. orientalis Progenitor (1° domesticate)
Pisum sativum subsp. elatius Progenitor (1° domesticate)
P. sativum subsp. elatius var. pumilio Progenitor (1° domesticate)
P. sativum subsp. sativum Crop (1° domesticate)
Secale cereale subsp. cereale Crop (2° domesticate)
Secale vavilovii Progenitor (2° domesticate)
Triticum monococcum subsp. aegilopoides Progenitor (1° domesticate)
Triticum monococcum subsp. monococcum Crop (1° domesticate)
Triticum turgidum subsp. dicoccoides Progenitor (1° domesticate)
Triticum turgidum subsp. dicoccon Crop (1° domesticate)