Tell me your barcode, and I will tell you what palm you are Date: December 30, 2013 Source: Pensoft Publishers Summary: A short fragment of chloroplastic DNA as a "barcode" for species ...

The genome analysis found that hybridization between date palms and P. theophrasti, a species known as the Cretan wild palm found in the Eastern Mediterranean, is the source of the mixed ancestry ...

image: Cretan date palms (Phoenix theophrasti) at Preveli Gorge, ... The researchers have shown that 5-18% of the North African date palm genome is derived from the Cretan wild palm.

A short fragment of chloroplastic DNA as a "barcode" for species identification within a group of palm species, including the economically important date palm Phoenix dactylifera, has been ...

“We believe the hybridization of the date palm from the Middle East with the wild Cretan palm gave rise to the date palms now found in North Africa, like the Medjool variety we get at our grocery ...

They also suggest that genes from the Cretan date palm, Phoenix theophrasti, increasingly spread into the southern Levant date palm populations between the fourth century BCE and mid-second century CE ...