date:Oct 17, 2019
On World Food Day, a team of Plant Scientists from King Abdullah University for Science and Technology (KAUST) announced it had begun a major project to improve global date palm production and protection. The project is the first time that the date palm genome has been studied so comprehensively.
Dr. Ikram Blilou, Professor of Plant Science at King Abdullah University for Science and Technology (KAUST) and her research team in Saudi Arabia have collected samples from date palms by the Quba mosq