Identification of new polymorphic regions and differentiation of cultivated olives (Olea europaea L.) through plastome sequence comparison.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The cultivated olive (Olea europaea L.) is the most agriculturally important species of the Oleaceae family. Although many studies have been performed on plastid polymorphisms to evaluate taxonomy, phylogeny and phylogeography of Olea subspecies, only few polymorphic regions discriminating among the agronomically and economically important olive cultivars have been identified. The objective of this study was to sequence the entire plastome of olive and analyze many potential polymorphic regions to develop new inter-cultivar genetic markers.

Results

The complete plastid genome of the olive cultivar Frantoio was determined by direct sequence analysis using universal and novel PCR primers designed to amplify all overlapping regions. The chloroplast genome of the oliv

SUBMITTER: Mariotti R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2956560 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature