Inter- and intra-varietal analysis of three Olea europaea L. cultivars using the RAPD technique.

摘要: SummaryCharacterization and selection of olive clones for the production oil is essential in Portugal because its profitable exploitation. “Moura-Serpa” most important Portuguese region relying on three cultivars quality. These are ‘Galega Vulgar’, ‘Cordovil de Serpa’ ‘Verdeal Alentejana’. Therefore, it great importance to guarantee varietal certification young trees establishment new orchards. Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD) technique was used characterize these cultivars. Analysis started using twenty primers that allowed us distinguish select a reduced set primers. The selected were inter- intra-varietal analysis establishing profiling system assay genetic diversity other method has potential use breeding programmes need analyse high number samples.