On the necessity of combining ethnobotany and genetics to assess agrobiodiversity and its evolution in crops: A case study on date palms (Phoenix dactylifera L.) in …

M Gros‐Balthazard, V Battesti, S Ivorra… - Evolutionary …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Crop diversity is shaped by biological and social processes interacting at different
spatiotemporal scales. Here, we combined population genetics and ethnobotany to …

Analysis of genetic diversity and population structure of Moroccan date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) using SSR and DAMD molecular markers

M Ibrahimi, N Brhadda, R Ziri, M Fokar, D Iraqi… - Journal of Genetic …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Date palm, oasis pivot, plays a vital socio-economic part in the southern area of
Morocco. However, with climate change and drought intensity and frequency increasing, the …

What are candits? Study of a date palm landrace in Spain belonging to the western cluster of Phoenix dactylifera L.

E Carreño, D Rivera, C Obón, F Alcaraz… - Genetic Resources and …, 2021 - Springer
The term candit (Valencian) or candío (Spanish) collectively refers to a specific group of date
palms predominant among those presently grown in groves along the coast of southeastern …

A brief history of the origin of domesticated date palms

M Gros-Balthazard, JM Flowers - arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.00281, 2020 - arxiv.org
The study of the origins of crops is of interest from both a fundamental evolutionary
understanding viewpoint, and from an applied agricultural technology perspective. The date …

Integration of ethnobotany and population genetics uncovers the agrobiodiversity of date palms of Siwa Oasis (Egypt) and their importance to the evolutionary history …

M Gros-Balthazard, V Battesti, S Ivorra, L Paradis… - bioRxiv, 2019 - biorxiv.org
Crop diversity is shaped by biological and social processes interacting at different
spatiotemporal scales. Here we combined population genetics and ethnobotany to …