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Somatic Embryogenesis in Oil Palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.)

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Somatic Embryogenesis and Synthetic Seed I

Part of the book series: Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry ((AGRICULTURE,volume 30))

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Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) belongs to the family Aracaceae. At the adult stage, this arborescent monocotyledon shows typical features of palms with a crown consisting of 40–50 opened, palmate leaves and a cone with 40–50 leaves at various development stages at the end of an unbranched stem. Growth is ensured by a single terminal meristem which produces an average of two leaves per month.

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  1. Laboratoire de Ressources Génétiques et Amelioration des Plantes Tropicales, ORSTOM, BP 5045, 34032, Montpellier Cedex, France

    Y. Duval

  2. IPGRI, Via delle Sette Chiese, 142, 00145, Rome, Italy

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  3. Station Principale IDEFOR/DPO de La Mé, CIRAD/CP, 13 BP 989, Abibjan 13, Ivory Coast

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Duval, Y., Engelmann, F., Durand-Gasselin, T. (1995). Somatic Embryogenesis in Oil Palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.). In: Bajaj, Y.P.S. (eds) Somatic Embryogenesis and Synthetic Seed I. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, vol 30. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03091-2_22

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