“…In the case of crops, key events determining the properties of the current varieties include domestication [ 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 ], and in the second half of the last century, the advent of modern breeding, which typically aims at developing high-yield cultivars able to value farming inputs, i.e., under conditions close to the agronomic optimum [ 29 , 30 , 31 ]. Modern cultivars may differ from ancient plant genotypes in terms of their root exudation because of differences in the physiology and metabolic composition of their plant tissues [ 32 , 33 , 34 ], root architecture [ 32 , 35 , 36 ] and disease resistance [ 37 , 38 , 39 ], which might lead to particular rhizobacterial community composition [ 17 , 21 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 ]. Indeed, interaction analysis of 192 bread wheat accessions with the 2,4-diacetylphloroglucinol (DAPG)-producing PGPR Pseudomonas ogarae F113 showed that the abilities for PGPR root colonization and expression of the DAPG genes phl on roots were higher overall in ancient wheat genotypes than modern genotypes, even though the capacity for PGPR interaction was maintained in certain modern cultivars [ 44 ].…”