Sunday, March 29, 2020

Ancient Wheat Genome Reveals Clues to the Agricultural Past

Amazing stuff!

" ... wheat, which carbon dating showed was from between 1130 and 1000 BC, was genetically much more similar to modern domesticated varieties than to modern wild ones, suggesting that the plant lineage the samples came from had already been domesticated ... "

Ancient Wheat Genome Reveals Clues to the Agricultural Past | The Scientist Magazine®: A museum sample of a 3,000-year-old Egyptian crop plant yields genomic information that helps researchers track the plant’s domestication and migration.


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