Olive (Olea europaea L.) is a crop well adapted to the environmental conditions prevailing in
the Mediterranean Basin. Nevertheless, the increasing international demand for olive oil and …

Global climate change, especially global warming, is affecting olive production efficiency as
well as its product quality. The size and water content of fruit varies depending on the olive …

Olive was introduced into cultivation more than 3000 years ago, but only during the last two
decades has cultivation shifted from low density to dense hedgerow orchards. This …

The hypothesis that aquaporins and carbonic anhydrase (CA) are involved in the regulation
of stomatal (gs) and mesophyll (gm) conductance to CO2 was tested in a short-term water …

The capacity of plant species to resist xylem cavitation is an important determinant of
resistance to drought, mortality thresholds, geographic distribution and productivity …

The effects of drought on several major morphological and anatomical features of leaves
were investigated in an attempt to explain the origin of the difference in drought resistance …

Heat waves are predicted to increase in frequency and duration in many regions as global
temperatures rise. These transient increases in temperature above normal average values …

This book of'olives' is the result of many years' endeavours in collecting valuable information
from the existing literature concerning the olive tree and its culture; a proportion of this …

Differences in vegetative growth, gas exchange, xylem hydraulic properties and water use
efficiency of biomass production were investigated on young plants of three Olea europaea …

Variation on bacterial communities living in the phyllosphere as epiphytes and endophytes
has been attributed to plant host effects. However, there is contradictory or inconclusive …