Grafting is an ancient agricultural practice that joins the root system (rootstock) of one plant
to the shoot (scion) of another. It is most commonly employed in woody perennial crops to …

In olive (Olea europaea L.) traditional methods of genetic improvement have up to now
produced limited results. Intensification of olive growing requires appropriate new cultivars …

In this work, we assess both the morphological and genetic diversity of 68 important olive
cultivars from three Southern Italian regions: Calabria, Campania and Sicily. Twenty-five …

The olive is globally considered as one of the most significant crops, with more than 1200
distinctive cultivars and an abundant number of wild forms. Greece, the third largest …

Olive (Olea europaea L.) is an economically important crop because of its fruit and oil.
Successful olive micropropagation is highly dependence on cultivar, shoot proliferation rate …

Wild subspecies of Olea europaea constitute a source of genetic variability with huge
potential for olive breeding to face global changes in Mediterranean-climate regions. We …

Summary Portions (1.0–1.5 cm long) of terminal shoots from selected mature trees Olea
europaea L. cv. Arbequina, micrografted in one phase onto in vitro juvenile shoots, resulted …

The richness of Olea europaea (L.) genetic resources in Sicily is well documented. In the last
30 years, most of the local cultivars, landraces and ecotypes have been gathered together in …

Cultivated olive (Olea europaea L. subsp. europaea var. europaea) is the most ancient and
spread tree crop in the Mediterranean basin. An important quality trait for the extra virgin …

The objective of the present investigation was to evaluate the effect of the genotype and
culture age on appearance of somaclonal variation in olive plants regenerated via somatic …