Date Palm Genetic Resources and Utilization

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction: Date Production Status and Prospects in Africa and the Americas

      • Dennis V. Johnson, Jameel M. Al-Khayri, S. Mohan Jain

      Pages 3-18

   3. Biodiversity, Genetic Diversity, and Genetic Resources of Date Palm

      • Abdullah A. Jaradat

      Pages 19-71

3. Africa

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73

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   2. Date Palm Status and Perspective in Egypt

      • Shawky A. Bekheet, Sherif F. El-Sharabasy

      Pages 75-123

   3. Date Palm Status and Perspective in Algeria

      • Nadia Bouguedoura, Malika Bennaceur, Souad Babahani, Salah Eddine Benziouche

      Pages 125-168

   4. Date Palm Status and Perspective in Sudan

      • Mohamed M. A. Khairi

      Pages 169-191

   5. Date Palm Status and Perspective in Tunisia

      • Hammadi Hamza, Monia Jemni, Mohamed Ali Benabderrahim, Abdesselem Mrabet, Sana Touil, Ahmed Othmani et al.

      Pages 193-221

   6. Date Palm Status and Perspective in Libya

      • Massimo Battaglia, Bashir Ghsera, Marta Mancini, Carlo Bergesio, Alessandro Camussi, Milvia Luisa Racchi

      Pages 223-255

   7. Date Palm Status and Perspective in Morocco

      • Moulay Hassan Sedra

      Pages 257-323

   8. Date Palm Status and Perspective in Mauritania

      • Moulay Hassan Sedra

      Pages 325-368

   9. Date Palm Status and Perspective in Sub-Sahelian African Countries: Burkina Faso, Chad, Ethiopia, Mali, Senegal, and Somalia

      • Mohamed Ben Salah

      Pages 369-386

   10. Date Palm Status and Perspective in Niger

       • Sahidou Abdoussalam, Dov Pasternak

       Pages 387-409

   11. Date Palm Status and Perspective in Cameroon

       • Sali Bourou, Noé Woin, Mohammed Aziz Elhoumaizi

       Pages 411-427

   12. Date Palm Status and Perspective in Djibouti

       • Abdourahman Daher, Nabil Mohamed, Frederique Aberlenc-Bertossi

       Pages 429-444

4. The Americas

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 445-445

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   2. Date Palm Status and Perspective in the United States

      • Robert R. Krueger

      Pages 447-485

   3. Date Palm Status and Perspective in South American Countries: Chile and Peru

      • Hugo A. Escobar, Rafael G. J. Valdivia

      Pages 487-506

5. Back Matter

   Pages 507-546

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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 Africa and the Americas. Countries included are: Egypt, Algeria, Sudan, Tunisia, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania, Niger, Cameroon, Djibouti, Chad, Mali Somalia, Ethiopia, Burkina Faso and Senegal, as well as the United States of America and the South American countries Chile and Peru. 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.

• Agricultural practice
• Biotechnology
• Commercial production
• Germplasm characterization
• Research assessment

• Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, King Faisal University, Al-Hassa, Saudi Arabia

  Jameel M. Al-Khayri

• Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

  Shri Mohan Jain

• Cincinnati, USA

  Dennis V. Johnson

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