The Olive Tree Genome

The Olive Tree Genome

This book provides an introduction to the genetics, genomics, and breeding of the olive tree, a multi-functional long-lived crop plant that is relevant not only for culinary olive and oil production, but also for shaping the landscape and history of many rural areas for centuries. Today, the recognized health benefits of extra-virgin olive oil provide new impulses for introducing innovation in olive crop management and olive breeding for a deeper understanding of the biological processes underlying fruit quality, adaptation to crop environment and response to threatening epidemics due to biological agents such as Xylella fastidiosa.
The individual chapters discuss genetic resources; classic and modern breeding methods for providing new olive cultivars; the genotype x environment interactions determining the response to biotic and abiotic stresses; fruit metabolism related to oil production and the synthesis of health beneficial molecules; the mapping of genes and quantitative trait locus; and genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic strategies pertinent to the development of a molecular platform and template amenable to precise and rapid genetic modifications using recently developed genome editing tools.

Table of contents
(10 chapters)

•    Origin and Domestication
Besnard, Guillaume
Pages 1-12
•    Olive Biology
Rapoport, Hava F. (et al.)
Pages 13-25
•    Olive Genetic Resources
Belaj, Angjelina (et al.)
Pages 27-54
•    Olive Growing in a Time of Change: From Empiricism to Genomics
Rallo, Luis (et al.)
Pages 55-64
•    Genetic Mapping and Detection of Quantitative Trait Loci
Baldoni, Luciana (et al.)
Pages 65-74
•    Host Response to Biotic Stresses
Corrado, Giandomenico (et al.)
Pages 75-98
•    Physiological Responses to Abiotic Stresses
Sebastiani, Luca (et al.)
Pages 99-122
•    Metabolomics of Olive Fruit: A Focus on the Secondary Metabolites
Servili, Maurizio (et al.)
Pages 123-139
•    Genome Sequencing, Transcriptomics, and Proteomics
Muleo, Rosario (et al.)
Pages 141-161
•    Olive Breeding with Classical and Modern Approaches
Rugini, Eddo (et al.)
Pages 163-193