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Fig. 14.3 Greening group affiliation of green plants
Accordingly, evolution under domestication, as manifested by selection for higher
plant yields, may favor either one of the two routes. It was shown for example
(Fasoula et al.
1996
), that in spring wheat (
Triticum aestivum
L.) and corn (
Zea
mays
L.), plants that use preferentially the more evolved MV Chl
a
biosynthetic
route at night, selection for yield does not favor the DV route, whereas in certain
cases the MV route is enhanced.
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