Heart‐of‐palm ( Euterpe edulis Mart.) is a wild palm with a wide distribution throughout the Atlantic Rainforest. Populations of E. edulis represent important renewable natural resources but are currently under threat from predatory exploitation. Furthermore, because the species is indigenous to the Atlantic Rainforest, which is located in the most economically developed and populated region of Brazil, social and economic pres...

Due to their maternal mode of inheritance, mitochondrial markers can be regarded as almost ‘ideal’ tools in evolutionary studies of conifer populations. In the present study, polymorphism was analysed at one mitochondrial intron ( nad 1, exon B/C) in 23 native European Pinus sylvestris populations. In a preliminary screening for variation using a polymerase chain reaction–restriction fragment length polymorphism approach, two...