1 Department of Plant Biology, Uppsala BioCenter, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, PO Box 7080, SE-750 07, Uppsala, Sweden.
2 Laboratorio Nacional de Genómica para la Biodiversidad, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN (Cinvestav), 36821 Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico. alfredo.herrera@cinvestav.mx.
A recent study identifies a locus controlling seed dormancy - a key trait of the 'domestication syndrome' - that has been selected for in parallel across multiple crop families.