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The origins of the domestication of the olive tree.
Comptes rendus biologies - 1 Dec 2009
Breton Catherine, Terral Jean-Frédéric, Pinatel Christian, Médail Frédéric, Bonhomme François, Bervillé André
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The present diversity of the olive (crop) and oleaster (wild) tree was investigated with nuclear and cytoplasm markers. Patterns of diversity of the wild form inferred eleven ancestral populations in the East and the West of the Mediterranean basin. Patterns of diversity for cultivars are less clear, but we showed that cultivars admixed to nine groups that corresponded to oleaster ancestral populations. We...
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