Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) is a fruit tree resilient to adverse climatic conditions
predominating in hot arid regions of the Middle East and North Africa. The date fruit contains …

Cryopreservation, or the storage at liquid nitrogen temperatures (-196° C), of embryogenic
cells or somatic embryos allows their long-term conservation without loss of their …

Date palm is one of the main horticultural crops of the ancient and recent world and an
important source of food. Geographical distribution between 24° and 34° N latitude is …

Palms (Arecaceae) contribute remarkable economic and environmental values to human
life. However, many elite and commercial palm species are becoming critically endangered …

BACKGROUND: CIP maintains the largest in vitro clonal potato collection in the world,
comprising 4,013 landraces and 3,353 improved accessions. The in vitro technology is more …

Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) cv. Khenizi caulogenic meristems were initiated from
achlorophyllous leaves excised from in vitro shoot cultures and then proliferated on a …

In this work we tested the efficiency of two techniques, droplet-vitrification (DV) and
dehydration (D) cryo-plate, for cryopreservation of polyembryonic masses (PEMs) of two …

This chapter describes an efficient protocol for large-scale micropropagation of date palm.
Somatic embryo-derived plants are regenerated from highly proliferating suspension …

The threat of global climate change is of great concern to scientists as these changes are
negatively impacting agriculture and threatening global food security by decreasing …

Plant cell cultures may consist of dedifferentiated cells as well as of cells showing
embryogenic potential. They can be used for very different purposes in research and …