Université de Fribourg

Polyploidy in the olive complex (Olea europaea): evidence from flow cytometry and nuclear microsatellite analyses

Besnard, G. ; Garcia-Verdugo, C. ; Casas, R. Rubio De ; Treier, Urs A. ; Galland, Nicole ; Vargas, P.

In: Annals of Botany, 2008, vol. 101, no. 1, p. 25-30

Background: Phylogenetic and phylogeographic investigations have been previously performed to study the evolution of the olive tree complex (Olea europaea). A particularly high genomic diversity has been found in north-west Africa. However, to date no exhaustive study has been addressed to infer putative polyploidization events and their evolutionary significance in the diversification...