This special issue, “Speaking of Food: Connecting basic and applied plant science,” aims to provide concrete examples of how a wide range of basic plant science, the types of scientific studies commonly published in AJB, are relevant for the future of food. This Special Issue was inspired by Elizabeth A. Kellogg’s 2012 Presidential Address to the Botanical Society of America, and resulted in part from a symposium and colloquium by the same name that took place at the 2013 Botany meetings in New Orleans, LA. The issue editors are grateful to the Botanical Society of America, the American Society of Plant Taxonomists, and the Torrey Botanical Society for support of this work.
Special issue of the American Journal of Botany, that is. Alas, only one of the papers, the one on strawberries, is open access, though.
I managed to get (easily) another paper “Back to the wilds: Tapping evolutionary adaptations for resilient crops through systematic hybridization with crop wild relatives.” Past the title into `Google Scholar’. The strawberry paper is excellent.
Same for “Agricultural origins from the ground up: Archaeological approaches to plant domestication”