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Occurrence of triploids in oil palm and their origin.
Annals of botany - 7 Feb 2023
Pomiès V, Turnbull N, Le Squin S, Syahputra I, Suryana E, Durand-Gasselin T, Cochard B, Bakry F
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Oil palms showing exceptional vigour and dubbed as 'giant palms' were identified in some progeny during breeding. A panel of phenotypical traits were studied to characterize these trees. The hypothesis that gigantism and other anomalies might be linked to polyploidy was investigated. METHODS: Twenty sib pairs of palms from different crosses, each comprising a giant and a normal oil palm, were...
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