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Olive domestication and diversification in the Mediterranean Basin.
The New phytologist - 1 Apr 2015
Diez Concepcion M, Trujillo Isabel, Martinez-Urdiroz Nieves, Barranco Diego, Rallo Luis, Marfil Pedro, Gaut Brandon S
Abstract excerpt
Olive (Olea europaea ssp. europaea) is the most important oil fruit crop in temperate areas, but the origin of the cultivated olive remains unclear. The existence of one or several domestication events in the Mediterranean Basin (MB) is still debated. We analyzed a dataset of 387 cultivated and wild accessions that were genotyped at 25 simple-sequence repeat (SSR) loci. The sample represented genetic diversity at...
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