MORPHOLOGICAL DIVERSITY OF DATE PALM (Phoenix dactylifera L.) IN EGYPT: 111- SOFT DATE PALM CULTIVARS | ||||
| Journal of Plant Production | ||||
| Article 18, Volume 30, Issue 11, November 2005, Page 7001-7027 PDF (6.64 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jpp.2005.237759 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Sh. S.H. EI Sharabasy,1; R. M. Rizk2 | ||||
| 1The Central Laboratory of Date Palm Research and Development, | ||||
| 2National Gene Bank (NGB), Agric. Research Center, Giza, Egypt. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| To generate essential information of the identification, description and documentation the agro-biodiversity of soft date palm cultivars in Egypt. taxonomical relationships of twenty one soft date palm cultivars growing in Egypt were addressed based on one hundred and three morphological attributes of trunk, crown, leaves, fruits and seeds. The most important attributes are arranged according to their taxonomic significance. This is followed by a key to the soft date palm cultivars in Egypt. Fruit and seed attributes are still the most important criteria to distinguish among date palm cultivars, but the blade, spine and crown attributes are useful in delimitation some cultivars. Cultivars Zaghloul, Samani, Hayani, Bent Eisha are the most common soft date palm in Egypt. In fact, Traditional soft date palm cultivars affected and consequently threatened by horticultural systems and socioeconomic factors of local community. It is necessary to emphasize that soft-date palm cultivars in fact demand urgent management action to conserve its threatened and unique biodiversity. Positive conservation action may be necessary at the infra-specific level if diversity of date palm cultivars are to be maintained. The active cultivation is vital to survival date palm diversity and a cultivars are soon lost for ever if it is not regularly propagated. Because of the human cultural of local communities have a heritage associated with date palm, The conservation and sustainable utilization of date palm diversity must be considered as a societal enthusiastic. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Agro; biodiversity; date palm; morphology; Phoenix dactylifera; taxonomy | ||||
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