DNA from 2,000-year-old grape seeds found in ancient Italian wells have pinpointed the origins of modern wine. Scientists who analyzed the seeds recovered from Tuscany were able to map the most ...

A distinctive local variety of grapevine from Ethiopia’s Tigray region could offer potential as a dryland crop.

Ancient local winegrape seeds from Shivta. A new study led by the paleogenomics laboratory of the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History at Tel Aviv University and the University of Haifa analyzed DNA ...

PARIS — Critics who praise the "complexity" of red Burgundy and Champagne are on target. A team of French and Italian researchers has mapped the genome of the pinot noir grape, used to make bubbly and ...

DNA from 2,000-year-old grape seeds found in ancient Italian wells have helped York researchers pinpointed the origins of modern wine. Scientists who analysed the seeds recovered from Tuscany were ...

The research also suggests long-distance agricultural networks across the Roman empire that may have been the forerunners of standardised production.Photograph: Christian Delbert/Alamy DNA extracted ...