AIM To assess genotyping with microsatellite-based markers of the olive (Olea europaea L.) for potential application of olive as legal case evidence, with regard to the degree of variability within the Croatian olive genomic pool and to the effectiveness of the chosen set of microsatellite-based markers in revealing olive divergence. METHODS The total of 44 autochthonous Croatian olive specim...

The study aimed at identifying the plants of Bousaada district M'sila province, South East Algeria, used by local people as traditional medicines and analyzing their use value. ethnomedicinal information was collected interviewing informants using structured questionnaires through regular field surveys. A total 193 species belonging to 69 families identified. Lamiaceae Asteraceae were most comm...

Pseudomonas savastanoi pv. savastanoi (Gardan et al., 1992) (hereafter Psv, according to Vivian & Mansfield (1993)) is the causal agent of olive knot disease. It is considered one of the most serious diseases affecting olive trees (Olea europaea L.) in most olive growing regions worldwide and mainly in Mediterranean countries, where this crop has been growing for centuries. The disease can lead...

A high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method endowed with a gradient elution and UV detection system was established validated for the determination of phenolic acids, alcohols, hydroxycinnamic acid derivatives, flavonoids, secoiridoids lignans during olive ( Olea europaea L.) fruit development (green, purple black olives). Within test range, calibration curves exposed good linear reg...