**" Gentile di Larino "**

*(synonymy: Gentile di Trivento, Olivacchione, etc.)* 

Areal distribution or origin area: **Molise** Flesh/pit weight ratio: **medium (6,45 ± 0,36)**  Oil content (%): **medium (44,75± 0,77)** Purpose: **oil**

## *Morphological characters*

*Tree characters*  Vigour: **medium**  Growth habit: **spreading**  Canopy-density: **medium-sparse** 

*Biochemical Characters*

132 Olive Germplasm – Italian Catalogue of Olive Varieties

Myristic acid **0,01 ± 0,00**  Palmitic acid **15,61 ± 0,49** Palmitoleic acid **1,42 ± 0,04** Stearic acid **2,21 ± 0,04** Oleic acid **62,20 ± 0,57**

*Fatty Acid Composition* 

*Organoleptic oil values* 

Sensory Analysis (*Panel test*)

*Molecular Markers* 

*Table 2.* Microsatellites (SSR) *loci* analyzed.

**References:** 

**ity.**

*Comment:* **fruity medium - light, with hints of almond and read sensations of grass and artichoke. Balanced taste sensation with a medium - light bitter and spicy. Medium fluid-**

Linoleic acid (ǚ6) **16,01 ± 0,11** Linolenic acid (ǚ3) **0,83 ± 0,04** Arachic acid **0,32 ± 0,03** Eicosenoic acid **0,02 ± 0,00** Behenic acid **0,07 ± 0,01**

*DCA09 DCA18 GAPU59 GAPU71A GUPA71B GAPU103A*  **172 - 172 169 - 179 208 - 212 210 - 214 124 - 130 170 - 170** 

*UDO01 UDO03 UDO12 UDO28 UDO39*  **140 - 140 143 - 143 166 - 193 154 - 205 213 - 213** 

1 - Pietrangeli E., Russo A., In: *Olivi D'Abruzzo*, Grafiche di Prinzio (1997), pp. 42-43. 2 - Muzzalupo I., Lombardo N., Salimonti A., *et al. Adv. Hort. Sci*. (2008), 22(2): pp. 142-148.

For each *locus* the allele size (expressed in base pairs) is reported.

*Table 1.* Average values (express in % ± standard deviations) of the fatty acids methyl esters and nutritional ratios obtained from single cultivar olive oils.

Lignoceric acid **0,03 ± 0,01** 

Unsat./satured **4,47 ± 0,16** ǚ6/ǚ3 **19,35 ± 1,17**

> *Leaf characters* Blade length (cm): **medium (5,49 ± 0,56)** Blade width (cm): **medium (1,17 ± 0,16)** Shape (length/width): **elliptic—lanceolate**

*Inflorescence characters* Inflorescence length (cm): **medium (3,21 ± 2,49)** Number of flowers: **low (17,16 ± 0,73)**

*Fruit characters* Fresh weight of 100 fruits (g): **medium (2,31 ± 0,10)** Shape (length/width): **ovoid**  Symmetry: **asymmetric**  Position of maximum transverse diameter: **central**  Apex: **rounded**  Base: **truncate**  Niplle: **tenuous** Lenticels: **many and small** 

*Pit characters*  Weight of 100 pits (g): **medium (0,31 ± 0,03)** Shape (length/width): **ovoid**  Mucron: **obvious**  Symmetry: **slightly asymmetric**  Position of maximum transverse diameter: **towards apex**  Apex: **rounded**  Base: **pointed**  Surface: **rugose**  Number of grooves: **low** 

### *Fatty Acid Composition*

**" Gentile nera di Colletorto "** *(synonymy: Colletortese, Gentile di Colletorto, Noccioluta, Oliva nera di Colletorto, etc.)* 

Innocenzo Muzzalupo 135

Areal distribution or origin area: **Molise** Flesh/pit weight ratio: **low (4,35 ± 0,11)**  Oil content (%): **medium (43,56 ± 1,26)**

*Morphological characters* 

Blade length (cm): **medium (5,35 ± 0,45)** Blade width (cm): **medium (1,10 ± 0,12)** Shape (length/width): **elliptic-lanceolate** 

Inflorescence length (cm): **short (2,34 ± 0,75)** Number of flowers: **low (13,08± 0,00)**

Fresh weight of 100 fruits (g): **medium (2,66 ± 0,08)**

Position of maximum transverse diameter:

Weight of 100 pits (g): **high (0,50 ± 0,01)**

Position of maximum transverse diameter:

Purpose: **oil**

*Tree characters*  Vigour: **medium-weak**  Growth habit: **spreading**  Canopy-density: **medium** 

*Leaf characters*

*Fruit characters*

**central**  Apex: **rounded**  Base: **truncate**  Niplle: **tenuous**

*Inflorescence characters*

Shape (length/width): **ovoid**  Symmetry: **slightly asymmetric** 

Lenticels: **few and small** 

Shape (length/width): **ovoid** 

Symmetry: **slightly asymmetric** 

Number of grooves: **medium** 

*Pit characters* 

Mucron: **obvious** 

**towards apex**  Apex: **rounded**  Base: **rounded**  Surface: **smooth** 

*Table 1.* Average values (express in % ± standard deviations) of the fatty acids methyl esters and nutritional ratios obtained from single cultivar olive oils.


#### *Organoleptic oil values*

Sensory Analysis (*Panel test*)

*Comment:* **fruity medium-high, with hints of almond and read sensations of grass and artichoke. Balanced taste sensation with a medium-high bitter and spicy. Medium-high fluidity.**

## *Molecular Markers*

*Table 2.* Microsatellites (SSR) *loci* analyzed.

For each *locus* the allele size (expressed in base pairs) is reported.


#### **References:**

1 - Various authors. In: *Catalogo Nazionale delle Varietà di Olivo,* University of Bari (in press), ISBN 978-88-88793- 97-9.

2 - Muzzalupo I., Lombardo N., Salimonti A., *et al. Adv. Hort. Sci*. (2008), 22(2): pp. 142-148.
