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In many Mediterranean countries olive is one of the oldest and most important crops. It belongs to the family Oleaceae and has approximately 30 genera with 600 species (Cronquist 1981) which are distributed on every continent and comprise a large number of garden plants and trees cultivated for economical purposes. According to Taylor (1945), the basic chromosome number of the genus Olea is x = 23 (2n = 46). Cultivated olive originated in Asia Minor and then subsequently spread to the Mediterranean basin. Today, olive is present even in western and South Africa, the USA, Australia, and China. Most cultivated olives belong to Olea europaea L., with more than 2600 different cultivars, although many of these might be ecotypes. Olea europaea L. does not seem to be a species, but rather a group of forms which originated by mutation and hybridization (Roselli and Scaramuzzi 1974; Chevalier 1948).
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Rugini, E., Pezza, A., Muganu, M., Caricato, G. (1995). Somatic Embryogenesis in Olive (Olea europaea L.). In: Bajaj, Y.P.S. (eds) Somatic Embryogenesis and Synthetic Seed I. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, vol 30. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03091-2_27
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