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Date Palm Biotechnology

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Date palm, Phoenix dactylifera L., is one of the oldest domesticated plants, but research to understand its diversity, evolution and adaptability is still lagging behind. One of the major limitations has been the lengthy life-cycle of this plant. Meanwhile, breeding challenges and opportunities are enormous, which in turn highlights the importance of how unraveling the evolutionary driving forces of this desert crop could help preserve its socio-economical, botanical and nutritional values. This review represents an up-to-date account of date palm progress in terms of genetics and breeding and underlines the challenges facing these two fields of research in this special crop. It also highlights some of the opportunities on the rise for breeding in this crop.

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Acknowledgments

This review has been supported by equal contribution from several research grants to Professor I. El Hadrami (IFS/AUF/PRAD/CNRST/AI Morocco-Tunisia/AI Morocco-France). The authors would like to thank Drs S. M. Jain and J. M. Al-Khayri for their critical review of the first draft of this contribution.

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    Dennis V. Johnson

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Hadrami, A.E., Daayf, F., Hadrami, I.E. (2011). Date Palm Genetics and Breeding. In: Jain, S., Al-Khayri, J., Johnson, D. (eds) Date Palm Biotechnology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1318-5_23

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