Abstract
Agriculture is endlessly facing new challenges, being the most pressing the foreseen climate changes. One of the approaches to limit the effects of challenging growth conditions for plants is the use of more adapted plant cultivars, able to withstand abiotic stress, like water shortage or excess heat. Almond tree is known to tolerate, to some extent, some of those stresses, but, using more adapted cultivars might be able to maintain production yield, without the need for further inputs to the crop. However, a thorough characterization of those cultivars is needed to allow the best selection, increasing the success of their use in future orchards. Portugal possesses favourable edaphoclimatic conditions for almond production, and a large diversity of traditional cultivars, most of them with little to no available agronomical or chemical data. This review aims to summarize the available information regarding Portuguese traditional almond cultivars.
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