Study Reveals Italians Spent Thousands of Years Perfecting Grape Cultivation

Ancient grape seeds reveal the slow domestication process from the Bronze Age to the Medieval Period. The domestication of grapevine in Italy was a gradual process that unfolded over several millennia, according to a study recently published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Mariano Ucchesu of the University of Montpellier, France, and his colleagues. [...]