Plant genetics: Ancient wild olives in Mediterranean forests

@article{Lumaret2001PlantGA,
  title={Plant genetics: Ancient wild olives in Mediterranean forests},
  author={Roselyne Lumaret and Noureddine Ouazzani},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2001},
  volume={413},
  pages={700-700},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:4387691}
}
It is shown here that genuinely wild olive trees, which cannot be distinguished morphologically from feral forms, still survive in a few Mediterranean forests and are genetically distinct and more variable than either the crop strains or their derived feral forms.
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