**" Santa Maria "**

Areal distribution or origin area: **Campania** Flesh/pit weight ratio: **medium (6,18 ± 0,46)**  Oil content (%): **medium (48,21 ± 0,21)** Purpose: **oil**

## *Morphological characters*

*Tree characters*  Vigour: **strong**  Growth habit: **spreading-erect**  Canopy-density: **medium-dense** 

*Biochemical Characters*

354 Olive Germplasm – Italian Catalogue of Olive Varieties

Myristic acid **0,01 ± 0,00**  Palmitic acid **12,06 ± 1,31** Palmitoleic acid **0,50 ± 0,02** Stearic acid **1,56 ± 0,13** Oleic acid **72,56 ± 0,61**

*Fatty Acid Composition* 

*Organoleptic oil values* 

Sensory Analysis (*Panel test*)

**intensity. Medium fluidity.**

*Molecular Markers* 

**References:** 

*Comment:* **fruity medium, with hints of artichoke and almond. Balanced in flavours, with hints of bitter and spicy medium-light** 

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

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

Linoleic acid (ǚ6) **11,17 ± 1,44** Linolenic acid (ǚ3) **0,97 ± 0,02** Arachic acid **0,17 ± 0,04** Eicosenoic acid **0,01 ± 0,00** Behenic acid **0,05 ± 0,02**

*DCA09 DCA18 GAPU59 GAPU71A GUPA71B GAPU103A*  **162 - 194 185 - 185 208 - 208 210 - 212 124 - 144 136 - 197** 

*UDO01 UDO03 UDO12 UDO28 UDO39*  **150 - 150 143 - 143 156 - 164 150 - 182 220 - 220** 

1 - Cimato A., Cantini C., Sani G., In: *L'olivo in Toscana: il germoplasma autoctono*, Ed. ARSIA (2001).

2 - Muzzalupo I., Stefanizzi F., Bucci C., *et al.* In *Acta Italus Hortus,* (2011), 1: 138 –140.

*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 **0,02 ± 0,01** 

Unsat./satured **6,23 ± 0,70** ǚ6/ǚ3 **11,56 ± 1,24**

> *Leaf characters* Blade length (cm): **medium (6,27 ± 0,52)** Blade width (cm): **broad (1,62 ± 0,14)** Shape (length/width): **elliptic**

*Inflorescence characters* Inflorescence length (cm): **long (3,72 ± 2,03)**

Number of flowers: **medium (15,58 ± 2,49)**

*Fruit characters* Fresh weight of 100 fruits (g): **low (1,42 ± 0,10)** Shape (length/width): **ovoid**  Symmetry: **slightly asymmetric**  Position of maximum transverse diameter: **central**  Apex: **rounded**  Base: **truncate**  Niplle: **tenuous** Lenticels: **many and small** 

*Pit characters*  Weight of 100 pits (g): **low (0,20 ± 0,00)** Shape (length/width): **ovoid**  Mucron: **obvious**  Symmetry: **slightly asymmetric**  Position of maximum transverse diameter: **central**  Apex: **rounded**  Base: **pointed**  Surface: **smooth**  Number of grooves: **medium** 

### *Fatty Acid Composition*

**" Sant'Agatese "** *(synonymy: Aliva d'oggi, Comune, Ogliara, Palermitana, Ugghiara, etc.)* 

Innocenzo Muzzalupo 357

Areal distribution or origin area: **Sicilia** Flesh/pit weight ratio: **high (7,77 ± 0,61)**  Oil content (%): **medium (47,29 ± 0,20)**

*Morphological characters* 

Purpose: **oil**

*Tree characters*  Vigour: **medium** 

*Leaf characters*

*Fruit characters*

**central**  Apex: **rounded**  Base: **rounded**  Niplle: **absent** 

*Inflorescence characters*

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

Lenticels: **few and small**

*Pit characters* 

Mucron: **absent**  Symmetry: **symmetric** 

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

Growth habit: **erect-spreading**  Canopy-density: **medium** 

Blade length (cm): **medium (5,50 ± 0,33)** Blade width (cm): **medium (1,27 ± 0,10)** Shape (length/width): **elliptic-lanceolate** 

Number of flowers: **low (15,81 ± 0,52)**

Inflorescence length (cm): **medium (2,66 ± 1,44)**

Fresh weight of 100 fruits (g): **high (4,40 ± 1,41)**

Position of maximum transverse diameter:

Weight of 100 pits (g): **high (0,52 ± 0,18)** 

Position of maximum transverse diameter:

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

Number of grooves: **medium** 

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


## *Molecular Markers*

*Table 2.* Microsatellites (SSR) *loci* analyzed. For each *locus* the allele size (expressed in base pairs) is reported.


#### **References:**

1 - Pugliano G., Flaminio G., Pugliano M.L., *et al.* In: *La risorsa genetica dell'olivo in Campania,* SE. S.I.R.C.A. Ed. Napoli, (2000).

2 - Muzzalupo I., Stefanizzi F., Perri E. *HortScience* (2009), 44: pp. 582-588.
