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This important 2-volume reference book is the first comprehensive resource reflecting the current global status and prospects of date palm cultivation by country. This volume covers Asia and Europe. The Asian countries included are: Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Pakistan, Oman, Yemen, Israel, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Syria, Palestine and India. Europe is represented by Spain. Topics discussed are: cultivation practices; genetic resources and breeding; conservation and germplasm banks; cultivar classification and identification based on morphological and molecular markers; micropropagation and progress toward scale-up production; and advances in dates processing and marketing. Chapters are supported by tables and color photographs. Appendixes summarize traits and distribution of major cultivars, commercial resources of offshoots and in vitro plants; and institutions and scientific societies concerned with date palm.

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1. Introduction and Date Production Prospects and Problems in Asia and Europe - Dennis V. Johnson, Jameel M. Al-Khayri and S. Mohan Jain
Part I Asia
2. Date Palm Status and Perspective in Iran - Saeed Hajian and Zohreh Hamidi-Esfahani
3. Date Palm Status and Perspective in Saudi Arabia - Salah M. Aleid, Jameel M. Al-Khayri and Abdulaziz M. Al-Bahrany
4. Date Palm Status and Perspective in Iraq - Hussam S.M. Khierallah, Saleh M. Bader, Kadhim M. Ibrahim and Ibrahim J. Al-Jboory
5. Date Palm Status and Perspective in Pakistan - Adel A. Abul-Soad, Shaimaa M. Mahdi and Ghulam S. Markhand
6. Date Palm Status and Perspective in Oman - Rashid Al-Yahyai and M. Mumtaz Khan
7. Date Palm Status and Perspective in Yemen - Saeed Ba-Angood
8. Date Palm Status and Perspective in Israel - Yuval Cohen and Baruch (Buki) Glasner
9. Date Palm Status and Perspective in Kuwait - Chellan Sudhersan, Jibi Sudhersan, Jawad Ashkanani and Lateefa Al-Sabah
10. Date Palm Status and Perspective in Qatar - Nazir H. Muhammed, Osman E. Ahmed, Talaat A. Ahmed and Mohammed S. Al-Yafai
11. Date Palm Status and Perspective in Bahrain - Thuraya A. Almansoori, Mohammed A. Al-Khalifa and Abdulaziz M.A. Mohamed
12. Date Palm Status and Perspective in Syria - Nadia Haider
13. Date Palm Status and Perspective in Palestine - Hassan Abu-Qaoud
14. Date Palm Status and Perspective in India - Sunil Pareek
Part II Europe
15. Date Palm Status and Perspective in Spain - Diego Rivera, Concepción Obón, Francisco Alcaraz, Encarna Carre¤o, Emilio Laguna, Asunción Amorós, Dennis V. Johnson, Gisela Díaz and Asunción Morte
Appendixes
Index

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