Olive tree is an emblematic crop of the Mediterranean region, mainly renowned for its fruit oil, although the species provides several industrial purposes. The Mediterranean basin constitutes the origin of olive species diversification and represents a valuable source of genetic variability of olive germplasm. Therefore, the evaluation of the diversity and the population structure of this Mediterranean germplasm is a challenge for olive species preservation, crop breeding and genetic improvement. In this context, our study aims to analyze the genetic diversity and the population structure of 79 Mediterranean olive accessions using 15 genomic SSRs and by applying computational model-based approaches. The used SSRs revealed a total number of 225 alleles with a mean of 15 alleles per locus. Observed and expected heterozygosity (Ho = 0.79, He = 0.805) with a Polymorphism Information Content value of 0.775 indicate high level of genetic diversity. All results of the Unweighted Pair Group Method with Arithmetic (UPGMA), Jaccard similarity index, Principal Coordinate Analysis (PCoA) and the Bayesian analyses supported the separation of the Mediterranean varieties in two sub-populations, one of which mainly composed by Spanish accessions.
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