olive cultivars with specific characteristics have been developed thanks to iran’s particular climatic conditionsand long-term olive cultivation. the genetic variation and relationships among 40 olive cultivars, as well as 17 unknown genotypes from the national olive collection orchard at tarom research station, zanjan, iran, were evaluated using ssr markers. using 10 microsatellite primer pair...

pomegranate (punica granatum l. that one punicaceae) is one of the important economical and commercial horticultural plants cultivated in arid and semiarid parts of iran. also, due to the long history of pomegranate cultivation in iran, genotypes from different regions with obvious similarities in appearance but with different names can be observed. thus, the precise discrimination between .gen...