Isolation and amplification of ancient DNA from herborized grapevine leaves collected by Spanish botanist Simón de Rojas Clemente y Rubio in 1803-1804

Ampelographic (grapevine) collection in 230-year-old Herbarium Wolnyanum (Sremski Karlovci, Serbia)

“…Among them was the discovery of an ampelographic collection of grape varieties grown on Fruška Gora Mountain at the beginning of the 19 th century, before the phylloxera plague in Europe. The oldest known ampelographic herbarium collection in the world is kept in Spain (Gago et al 2019). It was established in 1803-1804, almost 20 years before the Vitis collection in Sremski Karlovci.…”