Ancient DNA from 8400 Year-Old Catalhoyuk Wheat: Implications for the Origin of Neolithic Agriculture

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dc.contributor.authorBilgic, Hatice
dc.contributor.authorHakki, Erdogan E.
dc.contributor.authorPandey, Anamika
dc.contributor.authorKhan, Mohd Kamran
dc.contributor.authorAkkaya, Mahinur S.
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-26T19:23:04Z
dc.date.available2020-03-26T19:23:04Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.departmentSelçuk Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractHuman history was transformed with the advent of agriculture in the Fertile Crescent with wheat as one of the founding crops. Although the Fertile Crescent is renowned as the center of wheat domestication, archaeological studies have shown the crucial involvement of Catalhoyuk in this process. This site first gained attention during the 1961-65 excavations due to the recovery of primitive hexaploid wheat. However, despite the seeds being well preserved, a detailed archaeobotanical description of the samples is missing. In this article, we report on the DNA isolation, amplification and sequencing of ancient DNA of charred wheat grains from Catalhoyuk and other Turkish archaeological sites and the comparison of these wheat grains with contemporary wheat species including T. monococcum, T. dicoccum, T. dicoccoides, T. durum and T. aestivum at HMW glutenin protein loci. These ancient samples represent the oldest wheat sample sequenced to date and the first ancient wheat sample from the Middle East. Remarkably, the sequence analysis of the short DNA fragments preserved in seeds that are approximately 8400 years old showed that the Catalhoyuk wheat stock contained hexaploid wheat, which is similar to contemporary hexaploid wheat species including both naked (T. aestivum) and hulled (T. spelta) wheat. This suggests an early transitory state of hexaploid wheat agriculture from the Fertile Crescent towards Europe spanning present-day Turkey.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipTUBITAK (The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey)Turkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Arastirma Kurumu (TUBITAK) [TBAG 22045, 101T046]; United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThe present research work was funded by TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey) under project No. TBAG 22045 and 101T046. The authors thank United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for providing a scholarship to HB for conducting second laboratory aDNA isolation at UMIST Biomolecular Sciences, Manchester, UK.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.pone.0151974en_US
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203en_US
dc.identifier.issue3en_US
dc.identifier.pmid26998604en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0151974
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12395/33254
dc.identifier.volume11en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000372694700089en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ1en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakPubMeden_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherPUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCEen_US
dc.relation.ispartofPLOS ONEen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.selcuk20240510_oaigen_US
dc.titleAncient DNA from 8400 Year-Old Catalhoyuk Wheat: Implications for the Origin of Neolithic Agricultureen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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