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. 2018 May 17;9:649. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2018.00649

Table 1.

Case studies on herding ecologies which have led to landscape and plant domestication.

Culture/Geographic location Livestock speciesa Plant speciesa Reference
Navajo or Diné/Southwestern United States Sheep Cleome lutea, Chenopodium album, Descurainia pinnata, Sisymbrium altissimum, Polygonum aviculare, Amaranthus graecizans, Salsola iberica, Halogeton glomeratus, Malva neglecta, Gilia aggregate, Erodium cicutarium, Nicotiana attenuata Kuznar, 2001
Rarámuri or Tarahumara/Sierra Tarahumara, Northern Mexico Goats, sheep cattle Brassica campestris Bye, 1979
Aymara/Asana Valley, Southern Peru Goats, sheep, cattle, camelids Chenopodium spp., Dunalia brachycantha, Mutisia acuminata, Cantua candelilla Kuznar, 1993

aThe mutualisms among humans (culture), herbivores (livestock species) and plants are enlisted; only the most common species as reported by the authors are provided.