Olea europaea

Microsatellite marker-based identification and genetic relationships of olive cultivars from the Extremadura region of Spain

F. J. Delgado-Martinez, Amaya, I., Sánchez-Sevilla, J. F., and Gomez-Jimenez, M. C., Microsatellite marker-based identification and genetic relationships of olive cultivars from the Extremadura region of Spain, vol. 11, pp. 918-932, 2012.

Seventy-seven olive accessions corresponding to 25 cultivars from the Extremadura region of Spain were studied using four microsatellite or SSR markers in order to fingerprint them, and evaluate genetic similarity and relationships between local and introduced olive cultivars. The number of alleles per locus ranged from 4 to 8, with a mean of 6.25 alleles per primer pair (a total of 25 alleles). The observed heterozygosity ranged from 0.58 to 0.95, while the expected heterozygosity varied between 0.68 and 0.83. The polymorphism information content values ranged from 0.63 to 0.79.

Morphological traits and RAPD markers for characterization and identification of minor Spanish olive cultivars from the Extremadura region

M. C. Parra-Lobato, Delgado-Martinez, F. J., and Gomez-Jimenez, M. C., Morphological traits and RAPD markers for characterization and identification of minor Spanish olive cultivars from the Extremadura region, vol. 11, pp. 2401-2411, 2012.

A total of 91 wild olive accessions and 31 olive cultivars growing in the Extremadura region of central-western Spain were analyzed using morphological traits and RAPD markers. We focused on three main and 16 minor Spanish olive cultivars that are recognized as native or local to the Extremadura region. The five arbitrary 10-mer primers tested on the olive cultivars gave 67 polymorphic bands, representing 91% of the total amplification products. The number of bands per primer ranged from 9 to 18, whereas the number of polymorphic bands ranged from 8 to 17.

Molecular identification of Greek olive (Olea europaea) cultivars based on microsatellite loci

K. Roubos, Moustakas, M., and Aravanopoulos, F. A., Molecular identification of Greek olive (Olea europaea) cultivars based on microsatellite loci, vol. 9, pp. 1865-1876, 2010.

Olea europaea is one of the oldest species of domesticated trees. We used microsatellite markers for fingerprinting and for evaluation of genetic similarity and structure of 26 Greek olive cultivars, which cover most of the olive cultivation regions of Greece, including previously undescribed denominations from northern Greece. Eighty-one alleles were revealed with six SSR loci that were selected as most informative of 10 SSR primers that were initially investigated. The number of alleles per locus varied from 7 to 20 (mean, 13.5).

SSR analysis demonstrates that olive production in the southern Marmara region in Turkey uses a single genotype

A. Ipek, Barut, E., Gulen, H., Oz, A. T., Tangu, N. A., and Ipek, M., SSR analysis demonstrates that olive production in the southern Marmara region in Turkey uses a single genotype, vol. 8, pp. 1264-1272, 2009.

The southern Marmara region in Turkey was surveyed to determine the olive cultivars that are used for olive production. Genetic diversity analysis using simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers indicated that the cultivar Gemlik is the major olive cultivar grown in this region, while other olive cultivars are grown only for use as pollinators of Gemlik or for growers’ own exotic consumption. Although the quality of Gemlik is widely accepted in Turkey, its tendency toward alternate bearing is a major drawback.

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