“…The observed heterozygosity (Ho) was higher than the expected heterozygosity (He) for DCA-11, DCA-16, DCA-17 and GAPU-89, while the Ho was lower than the He for DCA-04, DCA-09 and UDO-14 ( The names in parentheses are synonyms given by the local growers; † a number was given to each sample to prevent confusion because more than one sample was collected for the most of cultivars. SSR markers have been developed for olives by several research groups (Carriero et al, 2002;Cipriani et al, 2002;Sefc et al, 2000), and this marker system was found to be the most reliable, effective and easy-to-use for cultivar identification in olives (Baldoni et al, 2009;Ipek et al, 2009;Muzzalupo et al, 2010;Sarri et al, 2006). In some studies, polyacrylamide gels and DNA analysis systems with fluorescent labeling were used for detecting polymorphic alleles of SSR markers (Baldoni et al, 2009;Carriero et al, 2002;Gomes et al, 2008;Sarri et al, 2006).…”