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An olive parentage atlas: founder cultivars, regional diversification, and implications for breeding programs.
BMC plant biology - 11 Mar 2026
Gómez-Gálvez F, de la Rosa-Navarro R, Besnard G, Lorite I J, Belaj A
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BACKGROUND: Olive pedigree has been scarcely explored beyond domestication and diversification studies, even though it can be valuable for breeding programs and germplasm management. This study presents a new and comprehensive exploration of olive parentage relationships by combining a large dataset of 840 cultivars with a cost-effective and highly informative panel of 96 EST-SNP markers routinely applied at the...
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