SummaryTwenty-five cultivars of Olea europaea were compared with respect to electro- phoretically detectable differences at 15 enzyme systems. The genetic distances between all pairs of cultivars (based on the identity of proteins) have been calculated. A ‘phylogeny’ is derived from these data and discussed in the light of new archaeological findings concerning olive cultivation and other historical evidence.
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Loukas et al. (1983) studied this question.