The current status of 9 Mediterranean fruit crops in terms of their production, world trade, cultural aspects, management practices, cultivars, associated pests and important products is discussed. The following fruits are covered: olive (Olea europaea), mandarin (Citrus reticulata), fig (Ficus ...

Subtropical fruit crops lag temperate crops in breeding progress with the exception of citrus, although progress is being made in avocado, fig, persimmon and olive. There are no current breeding efforts in pomegranates. In the last decade, molecular characterization using molecular techniques were...

Olive fruit cannot be eaten directly from the tree because of its content of the phenolic glucoside oleuropein, which is extremely bitter. Since ancient times, many methods have been developed for making olives edible. At the beginning of the 20th century, the use of NaOH to hydrolyze the bitter...

The nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra of olives are dominated by oil and water. Chemical shift imaging (CSI), a specialized version of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), was examined as a noninvasive technique to determine both oil and water content. To make the method quantitative, internal...

In contrast to other fruit crops, olive (Olea europaea) production is based mainly on traditional, locally selected cultivars. The world olive germplasm contains more than 2600 different cultivars, but olive genetic resources are poorly exploited and studied. Increasing our knowledge on olive tree...

Olives (Olea europaea L.) are extensively cultivated around the world today in proper climates apart from the Mediterranean region. Olives must be properly harvested, handled, processed and stored for successful high quality table olives or oil production. Most of the world table olives are...

This proceedings contains 87 papers focusing on olive breeding, conservation, physiology, cultivation and pests and diseases and various control methods. Information on the processing and quality of various olive products are also discussed.

As part of the Rural Development Programme for 2007-2013, the importance of protecting, characterizing and identifying the autochthonous olive germplasm of the Apulia Region was examined through the subaction "Integrated projects for biodiversity". The main objective of the Re.Ger.O.P. (Recupero...