Catcher in the rye: museomics reveals the identity of cereal remains recovered from a late nineteenth century antique furniture
This project uses museomic and genome-skimming approaches to study historical rye straws recovered from the upholstery of a Central European settee dated to 1870-1900. The cereal material is identified using plastome phylogenetics and morphological analysis, while genome-wide nuclear variation is used to determine its relationship to modern and historical rye (Secale cereale) populations and infer its likely landrace origin.