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BACKGROUND: Certification of the authenticity of local landraces having a Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) status is essential when fake exotic varieties can be used to replace authentic local varieties. The Almagro eggplant (Solanum melongena) is a landrace used for making pickle products recognized by PGI status. Other pickling varieties from the region of Andalusia that are closely related have been detected in fields of the Almagro region. We have studied the diversity of Almagro and Andalusian accessions with morphological traits and molecular markers (amplified fragment length polymorphisms (AFLPs) and simple sequence repeats (SSRs)) with the aim of obtaining a characteristic fingerprint of the Almagro eggplant.

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