A novel method for the economic fluorescent labelling of PCR products and its features are described. To investigate the efficiency of the method for amplification of olive microsatellite markers, PCR conditions of three loci were optimised. The results showed that the method can be successfully applied in genotyping studies of olive varieties.

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Olive (Olea europaea L.) is a crop well adapted to the environmental conditions prevailing in the Mediterranean Basin. Nevertheless, the increasing international demand for olive oil and table olives in the last two decades has led to expansion of olive cultivation in some countries of the southern hemisphere, notably in Argentina, Chile, Perú and Australia. While the percentage of world produc...

The olive tree (Olea europaea L.) has been cultivated around the Mediterranean basin since ancient times, ‘Arbequina’ being one of most widely grown varieties. To improve knowledge on ripening-related firmness changes in fruit, cell wall metabolism was studied irrigated and rain-fed olives at ‘Les Garrigues’, a Protected Designation Origin (PDO) Catalonia (NE Spain) where harsh environmental co...

A novel analytical approach has been developed and evaluated for the quantitative analysis of a selected group of widely used pesticides (dimethoate, simazine, atrazine, diuron, terbuthylazine, methyl-parathion, methyl-pirimiphos, endosulfan I, endosulfan II, endosulfan sulphate, cypermethrin and deltamethrin), which can be found at trace levels in olive oil and olives. The proposed methodology...

Probiotic bacteria are generally available for consumers as concentrated preparations or incorporated in milk-based foods. Due to an increased interest of the market for probiotic foods as well as to meet a demand of industry for innovation, a new kind of probiotic food has been developed using table olives as a carrier. Green table olives, produced according to the Spanish-style, are obtained ...

Anthracnose (Colletotrichum spp.) is an important disease causing major yield losses and poor oil quality in olives. The objectives were to determine the diversity and distribution pattern of Colletotrichum spp. populations prevalent in olives and their relatedness to anthracnose pathogens in other hosts, assess their pathogenic variability and host preference, and develop diagnostic tools. A t...

Table olives are an important fermented product of the Mediterranean area consumed all over world. In our era, food industry requires a safe and stable final with desirable characteristics for consumer. present study, two different experimental fermentations (L, Lactiplantibacillus plantarum strains, LY, L. strains Wickerhamomyces anomalus strain) were conducted monitored up to 180 days compare...

Human listeners are sensitive to interaural time differences (ITDs) in the envelopes of sounds, which can serve as a cue for sound localization. Many high-frequency neurons in the mammalian inferior colliculus (IC) are sensitive to envelope-ITDs of sinusoidally amplitude-modulated (SAM) sounds. Typically, envelope-ITD-sensitive IC neurons exhibit either peak-type sensitivity, discharging maxima...

Olive (Olea europaea L.) is a significant crop especially in Mediterranean countries. In Turkey olives and olive oil have major agricultural importance Olives been used not only nutrient as flavor enhancer dishes, but also medicine because of having essential roles for human health. the pharmaceutical value uses are related to biochemical content compounds. Mainly four chemical sources: mono-un...