ADAPT – Life in a cold climate: the adaptation of cereals to new environments and the establishment of agriculture in Europe
2014 - 2020
Jan, 2014
Jan, 2019
Project Overview
This project explores the concept of agricultural spread as analogous to enforced climate change and asks how cereals adapted to new environments when agriculture was introduced into Europe.
Project Results
DNA sequencing methods have been used to obtain information on the genetic relationships between different groups of landraces. In addition, it has been examined the extent to which groups of landraces evolved in order to become more greatly adapted to the environments in which they were being grown