Traceability of Italian Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) table olives by means of microsatellite molecular markers.

The aim of this work was to develop a DNA microsatellite-based method of analysis to allow traceability of the three Italian Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) table olives in comparison with fruits of another seven highly diffused table olive cultivars. The analyses were carried out by using 16 primer pairs, with a mean of five different alleles detected per primer set, and power of discrimination from 0.56 to 0.