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– Investigating the date palms of a three thousand year old oasis, IRD, 7 November 2022, by Fabienne Doumenge & Julie Sansoulet.
Enquête sur les dattiers d’une oasis trimillénaire, IRD, 7 novembre 2022, par Fabienne Doumenge & Julie Sansoulet.
Online: https://www.ird.fr/enquete-sur-les-...
– Intro:
A geneticist from the IRD (UMR DIADE) and an ethnobotanist from the CNRS join forces with the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia to trace the genomic identities behind the local names of date varieties grown in a 3000-year-old oasis.
– Reference to the article: What lies behind a fruit crop variety name ? A case study of the barnī date palm from al-‘Ulā oasis, Saudi Arabia
