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In Vitro Selection for Abiotic Stress in Date Palm

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In vitro-selection of date palm cultivars with an enhanced tolerance to abiotic stress represents a great support to the breeding program. This could lead to variants with superior agronomic quality and/or enhanced performance but also to genotypes harboring new traits such as tolerance to drought and salinity. In an era where a race has started towards functional food and nutraceuticals, this source of variation could also be explored to improve the nutritional value of dates. This chapter summarizes the recent progresses in date palm in vitro-selection and provides an outlook about future applications of the technique in this socio-economically important crop. It also highlights some of the challenges faced by this crop with regard to climate change and global warming.

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Acknowledgments

This review has been supported by several research grants to Professor Ismail El Hadrami (Ifs/AUF/PRAD/CNRST/AI Morocco-Tunisia/AI Morocco-France). The authors would like to thank Dr. S.M. Jain for the critical review of the first draft of this contribution.

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  1. OMEX Agriculture Inc. Canada, 301, 290 Agri Park Road, Oak Bluff, Manitoba, R0G 1N0, Canada

    A. El Hadrami

  2. Department of Plant Science, University of Manitoba, 222, Agriculture Building, Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2N2, Canada

    F. Daayf

  3. Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences Semlalia, Laboratory of Biotechnologies, Cadi Ayyad University, 2390, 40 000, Marrakech, Morocco

    I. El Hadrami

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Hadrami, A.E., Daayf, F., Hadrami, I.E. (2011). In Vitro Selection for Abiotic Stress in Date Palm. In: Jain, S., Al-Khayri, J., Johnson, D. (eds) Date Palm Biotechnology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1318-5_12

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