Beans ( ssp.) as a Model for Understanding Crop Evolution.

Here, we aim to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the most significant outcomes in the literature regarding the origin of genus, the geographical distribution of the wild species, the domestication process, and the wide spread out of the centers of origin. can be considered as a unique model for the study of crop evolution, and in particular, for an understanding of the convergent phenotypic evolution that occurred under domestication. The almost unique situation that characterizes the genus is that five of its ∼70 species have been domesticated (i.