Caroline Pont, Pierre-Louis Stenger, Carol Moreau, Cécile Huneau, Marie Lelièvre, Jerome Salse
In complement to classical approaches currently used in agricultural science in characterizing and exploiting in breeding traits- or phenotype-driving genes and genetic variants from modern genetic diversity, knowledge of past evolution and adaptation processes from ancient plant DNA can be mobilized to develop varieties adapted to current environmental challenges. The article reviews the current scientific and technical insights from the investigation of ancient DNA from plant remains with a focus in wheat.