The eastern part of the Fertile Crescent concealed an unexpected route of olive (Olea europaea L.) differentiation.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Olive is considered a native plant of the eastern side of the Mediterranean basin, from where it should have spread westward along the Mediterranean shores, while little is known about its diffusion in the eastern direction.

Methods

Genetic diversity levels and population genetic structure of a wide set of olive ecotypes and varieties collected from several provinces of Iran, representing a high percentage of the entire olive resources present in the area, was screened with 49 chloroplast and ten nuclear simple sequence repeat markers, and coupled with archaeo-botanical and historical data on Mediterranean olive varieties. Approximate Bayesian Computation was applied to define the demographic history of olives including Iranian germplasm, and species dist

SUBMITTER: Mousavi S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5604562 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature