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QTL mapping of flowering and fruiting traits in olive.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Ben Sadok Inès, Celton Jean-Marc, Essalouh Laila, El Aabidine Amal Zine, Garcia Gilbert, Martinez Sebastien, Grati-Kamoun Naziha, Rebai Ahmed, Costes Evelyne, Khadari Bouchaib
Abstract excerpt
One of the challenge fruit growers are facing is to balance between tree production and vegetative growth from year to year. To investigate the existence of genetic determinism for reproductive behaviour in olive tree, we studied an olive segregating population derived from a cross between 'Olivière' and 'Arbequina' cultivars. Our strategy was based on (i) an annual assessment of individual trees yield, and (ii)...
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