**Meet the editor**

Innocenzo Muzzalupo is a researcher of science and food technology in the Consiglio per la Ricerca e la sperimentazione in Agricoltura – centro di ricerca per l'olivicoltura e l'industria olearia (Agricultural Research Council - olive growing and oil industry research centre, CRA-OLI) in Italy. He received a degree in Biological Science from the University of Calabria in 1993. He

received his PhD (1997) in Chemistry from the University of "La Sapienza" Rome. After he received his PhD degree, he was appointed as Post-Doctoral in Food Science at the University of Calabria. Between 1999 and 2008 he had a contract as professor of Botany at the University of Calabria. Following eight years of extensive research on olive characterization, in 2008 he was appointed as a researcher at the CRA. His research areas include olive germplasm characterization, olive genes characterization, and analytical methods for olive oil traceability and olive oil quality.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Chapter 2 **Botanical Description 23** 

Chapter 3 **Cultivation Techniques 39** 

Chapter 6 **Phytosanitary Certification 107** 

Chapter 7 **Olive Tree Genomic 133** 

**Section 2 Virgin Olive Oil 149** 

Chapter 4 **Floral Biology:** 

Chapter 1 **Origin and History of the Olive 3** 

Catherine Marie Breton, Peter Warnock and André Jean Bervillé

Adriana Chiappetta and Innocenzo Muzzalupo

**Implications for Fruit Characteristics and Yield 71**  Adolfo Rosati, Silvia Caporali and Andrea Paoletti

Giuliana Albanese, Maria Saponari and Francesco Faggioli

Rosario Muleo, Michele Morgante, Riccardo Velasco, Andrea Cavallini, Gaetano Perrotta and Luciana Baldoni

Chapter 8 **Technological Aspects of Olive Oil Production 151**  Maurizio Servili, Agnese Taticchi, Sonia Esposto,

Pietro Toscano and Francesco Montemurro

Beatrice Sordini and Stefania Urbani

Chapter 9 **Olive Mill By-Products Management 173** 

Caterina Briccoli Bati, Elena Santilli, Ilaria Guagliardi and Pietro Toscano

Chapter 5 **Susceptibility of Cultivars to Biotic Stresses 81**  Nino Iannotta and Stefano Scalercio

**Section 1 Olive Germplasm 1** 
