Current Status of Biodiversity Assessment and Conservation of Wild Olive (Olea europaea L. subsp. europaea var. sylvestris)
Journal: Plants
Year: 2022

Oleaster (<i>Olea europaea</i> L. subsp. <i>europaea</i> var. <i>sylvestris</i>) is the ancestor of cultivated olive (<i>Olea europaea</i> L. subsp. <i>europaea</i> var. <i>europaea</i>) and it is spread through the whole Mediterranean Basin, showing an overlapping distribution with cultivated olive trees. Climate change and new emerging diseases are expected to severely affect the cultivations of olive in the future. Oleaster presents a higher genetic variability compared to the cultivated oliv