The wild genetic resources of the cultivated olive

Heverlee-Louvain

1994

S. 62-64

Bandaufführung

183081

This paper surveys the wild Olea taxa closely related to the cultivated olive and sketches their geographic distribution. Both Mediterranean and non-Mediterranean wild-types constitute the wild gene-pool of this fruit crop. However, only the first have been involved in olive domestication.
Key words: Wild relatives of cultivated Olea europaea L.