What is it about?
Crops have high yield when they have cooperative behavior among individuals
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Why is it important?
This finding indicates that crop breeding should follow the principle of cooperative behavior, which is different from the theory of survival of fittest.
Perspectives
Crop breeding is a group selection, and reduction individual crop plant performance is helpful population yield by weakening "selfish behaviours"
Feng-Min Li
Lanzhou University
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This page is a summary of: Evolutionary agroecology: individual fitness and population yield in wheat (Triticum aestivum
), Ecology, August 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/ecy.1934.
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