Genetic Structure of Wild and Cultivated Olives in the Central Mediterranean Basin

Baldoni, Luciana; Tosti, N.; Ricciolini, Claudia; Belaj, Angjelina; Arcioni, S.; Pannelli, Giorgio; Antonietta Germanà, María; Mulas, Maurizio; Porceddu, Andrea

doi:10.1093/aob/mcl178

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Genetic Structure of Wild and Cultivated Olives in the Central Mediterranean Basin

Published in Annals of Botany • Aug 25, 2006

Authors:

Luciana Baldoni

N. Tosti

Claudia Ricciolini

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Olive cultivars and their wild relatives (oleasters) represent two botanical varieties of Olea europaea subsp. europaea (respectively europaea and sylvestris). Olive cultivars have undergone human selection and their area of diffusion overlaps that of oleasters. Populations of g...

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Biology

Olea

Domestication

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