Phoenix dactylifera: Seeking the origin of the historic Judean Date Palm, using genetic analysis of germinated ancient seeds.
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The Date Palm, Phoenix dactylifera, a dioecious species (in dioecious plants each individual produces either male or female flowers only) in the Arecaceae (formerly Palmae) family has a historical distribution stretching from Mauritania in the west to the Indus Valley in the east. A major fruit crop in hot and arid regions of North Africa and the Middle East and one of the earliest domesticated tree crops, archaeobotanical records suggest that the earliest exploitation and consumption of Dates is from the Arabian Neolithic some 7000 years before the present. Evidence of cultivation in Mesopotamia and Upper Arabian Gulf approximately 6700 to 6000 years before present support these centres as the ancient origin of Date Palm domestication in this region, with a later establishment of oasis agriculture in North Africa.
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