Date Palm Biotechnology Protocols Volume II: Germplasm Conservation and Molecular Breeding (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

Part I Germplasm In Vitro Conservation 1 Storage and Viability Assessment of Date Palm Pollen Maryam, Muhammad J. Jaskani, and Summar A. Naqvi 2 In Vitro Conservation of Date Palm Tissue Cultures Shawky A. Bekheet 3 Cryopreservation of Date Palm Pro-embryonic Masses Using the D Cryo-Plate Technique Mohammad Salma and Florent Engelmann 4 In Vitro Cryopreservation of Date Palm Caulogenic Meristems Lotfi Fki, Olfa Chkir, Walid Kriaa, Ameni Nasri, Emna Baklouti, Raja B. Masmoudi, Alain Rival, oureddine Drira, and Bart Panis 5 In Vitro Conservation of Date Palm Shoot-Tip Explants and Callus Cultures under Minimal-Growth Conditions Maiada M. El-Dawayati 6 In Vitro Conservation of Date Palm Somatic Embryos Using Growth Retardant Conditions Mona M. Hassan 7 Encapsulation of Date Palm Somatic Embryos: Synthetic Seeds Shawky A. Bekheet Part II Molecular Analysis of In Vitro Cultures 8 Evaluation of Clonal Fidelity of Micropropagated Date Palm by Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD) Arpan Modi, Bhavesh Gajera, Naraynan Subhash, and Nitish Kumar 9 Molecular Identification of Fungal Contamination in Date Palm Tissue Cultures Mohammed H. Abass Part III Genetic Diversity and Cultivar Identity 10 Genetic Diversity Analysis of Date Palm Using Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD) and Inter Simple Sequence Repeat (ISSR) Mahesh K. Mahatma, Vishal S. Srivashtav, and Sanjay Jha 11 Date Palm Genetic Diversity Analysis Using Microsatellite Polymorphism Hussam S.M. Khierallah, Saleh M. Bader, Alladin Hamwieh, and Michael Baum 12 Assessing Date Palm Genetic Diversity Using Different Molecular Markers Mohamed A.M. Atia, Mahmoud M. Sakr, and Sami S. Adawy 13 Molecular Analysis of Date Palm Genetic Diversity Using Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD) and Inter Simple Sequence Repeats (ISSR) Sherif F. El Sharabasy and Khaled A. Soliman 14 Determining Phylogenetic Relationships among Date Palm Cultivars Using Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD) and Inter Simple Sequence Repeats (ISSR) Markers Nadia Haider 15 Genotyping and Molecular Identification of Date Palm Cultivars Using Inter Simple Sequence Repeat (ISSR) Markers Basim M. Ayesh 16 Molecular Identification of Date Palm Cultivars Using random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) Markers Nasser S. Al-Khalifah and A.E. Shanavaskhan Part IV Gender Identification 17 Early Sex Identification in Date Palm by Male Specific Sequence-Characterized Amplified Region (SCAR) markers Pushpa Kharb and Charu Mitra 18 Gender Identification in Date Palm Using Molecular Markers Faisal S. Awan, Maryam, Muhammad J. Jaskani, and Bushra Sadia 19 Development of Sex-Specific PCR-based Markers in Date Palm Mohamed A.M. Atia, Mahmoud M. Sakr, Morad M. Mokhtar, and Sami S. Adawy 20 Date Palm Sex Differentiation Based on Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (FISH) Mohamed A.M. Atia, Sami S. Adawy, and Hanaiya A. El-Itriby Part V Genomics 21 Characterization and Amplification of Gene-Based Simple Sequence Repeats (SSR) Markers in Date Palm Yongli Zhao, Manjunath Keremane, Channapatna S. Prakash, and Guohao He 22 Mitochondrial Molecular Markers for Resistance to Bayoud Disease in Date Palm Amgad A. Saleh, Anwar H. Sharafaddin, Mahmoud H. El_Komy, Yasser E. Ibrahim, Younis K. Hamad, and Younis Y. Molan 23 Analysis of Expressed Sequence Tags (EST) in Date Palm Sulieman A. Al-Faifi, Hussein M. Migdadi, Salem S. Algamdi, Mohammad Altaf Khan, Rashid S. Al-Obeed, Megahed H. Ammar, and Jerenj Jakse 24 Development of Genomic Simple Sequence Repeats (SSR) by Enrichment Libraries in Date Palm Sulieman A. Al-Faifi, Hussein M. Migdadi, Salem S. Algamdi, Mohammad Altaf Khan, Rashid S. Al-Obeed, Megahed H. Ammar, and Jerenj