Algerian Olive Germplasm and Its Relationships with the Central-Western Mediterranean Varieties Contributes to Clarify Cultivated Olive Diversification
Olive tree with its main final product, olive oil, is an important element of Mediterranean history, considered the emblematic fruit of a civilization. Despite its wide diffusion and economic and cultural importance, its evolutionary and phylogenetic history is still difficult to clarify. As part of...
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| author | Kamel Atrouz Ratiba Bousba Francesco Paolo Marra Annalisa Marchese Francesca Luisa Conforti Benedetta Perrone Hamza Harkat Amelia Salimonti Samanta Zelasco |
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| description | Olive tree with its main final product, olive oil, is an important element of Mediterranean history, considered the emblematic fruit of a civilization. Despite its wide diffusion and economic and cultural importance, its evolutionary and phylogenetic history is still difficult to clarify. As part of the Mediterranean basin, Algeria was indicated as a secondary diversification center. However, genetic characterization studies from Maghreb area, are currently underrepresented. In this context, we characterized 119 endemic Algerian accessions by using 12 microsatellite markers with the main goal to evaluate the genetic diversity and population structure. In order to provide new insights about the history of olive diversification events in the Central-Western Mediterranean basin, we included and analyzed a sample of 103 Italian accessions from Sicily and, a set of molecular profiles of cultivars from the Central-Western Mediterranean area. The phylogenetic investigation let us to evaluate genetic relationships among Central-Mediterranean basin olive germplasm, highlight new synonymy cases to support the importance of vegetative propagation in the cultivated olive diffusion and consolidate the hypothesis of more recent admixture events occurrence. This work provided new information about Algerian germplasm biodiversity and contributed to clarify olive diversification process. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ba6c51378372410c8d90903abe88cd872023-11-21T13:50:13ZengMDPI AGPlants2223-77472021-04-0110467810.3390/plants10040678Algerian Olive Germplasm and Its Relationships with the Central-Western Mediterranean Varieties Contributes to Clarify Cultivated Olive DiversificationKamel Atrouz0Ratiba Bousba1Francesco Paolo Marra2Annalisa Marchese3Francesca Luisa Conforti4Benedetta Perrone5Hamza Harkat6Amelia Salimonti7Samanta Zelasco8Council for Agricultural Research and Economics-Research Centre for Olive, Fruit and Citrus Crops, 87036 Rende, ItalyDepartment of Biology and Plant Ecology, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Life, Frères, Mentouri University, Constantine 25000, AlgeriaDepartment of Architecture, University of Palermo, 90128 Palermo, ItalyDepartment of Agricultural, Food and Forest Sciences, University of Palermo, 90128 Palermo, ItalyDepartment of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende, ItalyDepartment of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende, ItalyDepartment of Biology and Plant Ecology, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Life, Frères, Mentouri University, Constantine 25000, AlgeriaCouncil for Agricultural Research and Economics-Research Centre for Olive, Fruit and Citrus Crops, 87036 Rende, ItalyCouncil for Agricultural Research and Economics-Research Centre for Olive, Fruit and Citrus Crops, 87036 Rende, ItalyOlive tree with its main final product, olive oil, is an important element of Mediterranean history, considered the emblematic fruit of a civilization. Despite its wide diffusion and economic and cultural importance, its evolutionary and phylogenetic history is still difficult to clarify. As part of the Mediterranean basin, Algeria was indicated as a secondary diversification center. However, genetic characterization studies from Maghreb area, are currently underrepresented. In this context, we characterized 119 endemic Algerian accessions by using 12 microsatellite markers with the main goal to evaluate the genetic diversity and population structure. In order to provide new insights about the history of olive diversification events in the Central-Western Mediterranean basin, we included and analyzed a sample of 103 Italian accessions from Sicily and, a set of molecular profiles of cultivars from the Central-Western Mediterranean area. The phylogenetic investigation let us to evaluate genetic relationships among Central-Mediterranean basin olive germplasm, highlight new synonymy cases to support the importance of vegetative propagation in the cultivated olive diffusion and consolidate the hypothesis of more recent admixture events occurrence. This work provided new information about Algerian germplasm biodiversity and contributed to clarify olive diversification process.https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/10/4/678Algerian olive germplasmphylogenesis analysisbiodiversity |
| spellingShingle | Kamel Atrouz Ratiba Bousba Francesco Paolo Marra Annalisa Marchese Francesca Luisa Conforti Benedetta Perrone Hamza Harkat Amelia Salimonti Samanta Zelasco Algerian Olive Germplasm and Its Relationships with the Central-Western Mediterranean Varieties Contributes to Clarify Cultivated Olive Diversification Plants Algerian olive germplasm phylogenesis analysis biodiversity |
| title | Algerian Olive Germplasm and Its Relationships with the Central-Western Mediterranean Varieties Contributes to Clarify Cultivated Olive Diversification |
| title_full | Algerian Olive Germplasm and Its Relationships with the Central-Western Mediterranean Varieties Contributes to Clarify Cultivated Olive Diversification |
| title_fullStr | Algerian Olive Germplasm and Its Relationships with the Central-Western Mediterranean Varieties Contributes to Clarify Cultivated Olive Diversification |
| title_full_unstemmed | Algerian Olive Germplasm and Its Relationships with the Central-Western Mediterranean Varieties Contributes to Clarify Cultivated Olive Diversification |
| title_short | Algerian Olive Germplasm and Its Relationships with the Central-Western Mediterranean Varieties Contributes to Clarify Cultivated Olive Diversification |
| title_sort | algerian olive germplasm and its relationships with the central western mediterranean varieties contributes to clarify cultivated olive diversification |
| topic | Algerian olive germplasm phylogenesis analysis biodiversity |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/10/4/678 |
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