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This is the home page for the date palm genomic diversity project at New York University Abu Dhabi.

The current genome hosted on this website is that of a 4th generation backcross male from a cross with Barhee. See the About page for additional details.

The website offers a searchable database of gene and mRNA feature pages (see Data Search), along with a BLAST tool (under consruction) for our date palm genome data, a JBrowse viewer, and downloadable files.



Recent Publications

  • Flowers, J. M., Hazzouri, K. M., Lemansour, A., Capote, T., Gros-Balthazard, M., Ferrand, S., Lebrun, M., Amiri, K., & Purugganan, M. D. (2022). Patterns of Volatile Diversity Yield Insights Into the Genetics and Biochemistry of the Date Palm Fruit Volatilome. Frontiers in plant science, 13, 853651. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.853651
  • Gros-Balthazard M and Flowers JM. 2021. A Brief History of the Origins of Domesticated Date palms. In: The Date Palm Genome, Vol. 1. eds. Jameel M. Al-Khayri, S. Mohan Jain, Dennis V. Johnson. Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73746-7_3
  • Gros-Balthazard M, Flowers JM, Hazzouri KM, Ferrand S, Aberlenc F, Sallon S, Purugganan MD. 2021. The genomes of ancient date palms germinated from 2,000 y old seeds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118: e2025337118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2025337118
  • Capote T, Flowers JM, Hazzouri KM, Purugganan MD, Amiri KA. 2021. The genomics of date palms: current perspectives. Annual Plant Reviews. 4:1-29. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119312994.apr0748
  • Hazzouri, K.M., Gros-Balthazard, M., Flowers, J.M., Copetti, D., Lemansour, A., Lebrun, M., Masmoudi, K., Ferrand, S., Dhar, M.I., Fresquez, Z.A., Rosas, U., Zhang, J., Talag, J., Lee, S., Kudrna, D., Powell, R.F., Leitch, I.J., Krueger, R.R., Wing, R.A., Amiri, K.M.A., and Purugganan, M.D. (2019). Genome-wide association mapping of date palm fruit traits. Nature Comm. 10, 4680. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12604-9
  • Flowers, J.M., Hazzouri, K.M., Gros-Balthazard, M., Mo, Z., Koutroumpa, K., Perrakis, A., Ferrand, S., Khierallah, H.S.M., Fuller, D.Q., Aberlenc, F., Fournaraki, C. and Purugganan, M.D. (2019). Cross-species hybridization and the origin of North African date palms. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA. 116, 1651-1658. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1817453116
  • Hazzouri, K.M., Flowers, J.M., Visser, H.J., Khierallah, H.S.M., Rosas, U., Pham, G.M., Meyer, R.S., Johansen, C.K., Fresquez, Z.A., Masmoudi, K., Haider, N., El Kadri, N., Idaghdour, Y., Malek, J.A., Thirkhill, D., Markhand, G.S., Krueger, R.R., Zaid, A., and Purugganan, M.D. (2015). Whole genome re-sequencing of date palms yields insights into diversification of a fruit tree crop. Nature Comm. 6, 8824. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9824