Talk:Annual vs. perennial plant evolution

Dowen's Peer Review
Current agricultural applications Compared to annual monocultures (which occupy c. 2/3 of the world's agricultural land), perennial crops provide protection against soil erosion, better conserve water and nutrients, and undergo a longer growing season.[42][43] Wild perennial species are often more resistant to pests than annual cultivars, and many perennial crop wild relatives have already been hybridized with annual crops to confer this resistance.[42] Perennial species also typically store more atmospheric carbon than annual crops, which can help to mitigate climate change.[42][43] Unfavorable characteristics of such herbaceous perennials include energetically unfavorable trade-offs and long periods of juvenile non-productivity.[41] Some institutions, such as The Land Institute, have begun to develop perennial grains, such as Kernza (perennial wheat), as potential crops.[42] Some traits underlying perenniality may involve relatively simple networks of traits, which can be conferred through hybrid crosses, as in the case of perennial wheat crossed with annual wheat.[16]

I think this section can just be a new section rather than being under Artificial selection

Under the anomalies, I think that you are mentioning a perennial with a semelparous life history, so just say Perennial semelparous or something along those lines instead of titling it Semelparity and iteoparity, unless there is a case of an annual with a iteoparous life history.

Djocson (talk) 16:28, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

Justin's Review
I feel like the "Trade Off's" section could be moved further down the page. You refer to a few things that are explained further down, so perhaps it would fit better after those things are introduced, for example; you mention semelparity and ramets; without much explanation until further into the page.

I like the content, lots of great information here, Good Job. --Jgarret8 (talk) 18:31, 19 April 2016 (UTC)