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towards plant domestication in response to newly emerging social demands
regarding multifunctional rather than specialized production systems. In
response to several newly emerging considerations the domestication of fruit
trees should be focused on more aspects than productivity only. Consequently,
the traditional idea of domestication involving mainly a fundamental change
towards vegetative propagation of superior trees for production in orchards
needs to be adjusted, and much more attention should be given to the
development of multifunctional fruit production systems appropriate to present-
day social and environmental concerns. The 'intermediate' systems, ranging
from wild forests modified for increased fruit production to anthropogenic
forests with fruit species growing in a biodiverse multistoreyed production
system, can be considered as good models of domesticated forests, combining
productivity for multi-enterprise farmers and biodiversity conservation, and as
providing a good basis for novel approaches towards a more integrated
approach to domestication.

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