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Date Palm Genetic Resources and Utilization: Volume 2: Asia and Europe

By Shri Mohan Jain , Jameel M. Al-Khayri , Dennis V. Johnson (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
2015
ISBN
978-94-017-9706-1, 978-94-017-9707-8
DOI
10.1007/978-94-017-9707-8
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
20 MB (20632782 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
566\567
Time added
2015-04-23 16:00:00
Agriculture; Plant Sciences

Description

This important 2-volume reference book is the first comprehensive resource reflecting the current global status and prospects of date palm cultivation by country. This volume covers Asia and Europe. The Asian countries included are: Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Pakistan, Oman, Yemen, Israel, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Syria, Palestine and India. Europe is represented by Spain. Topics discussed are: cultivation practices; genetic resources and breeding; conservation and germplasm banks; cultivar classification and identification based on morphological and molecular markers; micropropagation and progress toward scale-up production; and advances in dates processing and marketing. Chapters are supported by tables and color photographs. Appendixes summarize traits and distribution of major cultivars, commercial resources of offshoots and in vitro plants; and institutions and scientific societies concerned with date palm.

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