@article {102, title = {Yam genomics supports West Africa as a major cradle of crop domestication}, journal = {SCIENCE ADVANCES}, volume = {5}, year = {2019}, month = {1 May 2019}, pages = {1-8}, chapter = {1}, abstract = {

While there has been progress in our understanding of the origin and history of agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa,
a unified perspective is still lacking on where and how major crops were domesticated in the region. Here, we
investigated the domestication of African yam (Dioscorea rotundata), a key crop in early African agriculture. Using
whole-genome resequencing and statistical models, we show that cultivated yam was domesticated from a forest
species. We infer that the expansion of African yam agriculture started in the Niger River basin. This result, alongside
with the origins of African rice and pearl millet, supports the hypothesis that the vicinity of the Niger River
was a major cradle of African agriculture.

}, doi = {10.1126/sciadv.aaw1947}, author = {Nora Scarcelli and Philippe Cubry and Roland Akakpo and Anne-C{\'e}line Thuillet and Jude Obidiegwu and Mohamed N. Baco and Emmanuel Otoo and Bonaventure Sonk{\'e} and Alexandre Dansi and Gustave Djedatin and C{\'e}dric Mariac and Marie Couderc and Sandrine Causse and Karine Alix and H{\^a}na Cha{\"\i}r and Olivier Fran{\c c}ois and Yves Vigouroux} } @article {84, title = {Complete plastome sequences of 14 African yam species (Dioscorea spp.).}, year = {2019}, author = {Jacqueline Magw{\'e}-Tindo and Jan J. Wieringa and Bonaventure Sonk{\'e} and Louis Zapfack and Yves Vigouroux and Thomas L. P. Couvreur and Nora Scarcelli} }