Vol. 85 No: 2

Title:
Identification of a male-specific RAPD marker in Phoenix dactylifera

Authors:
S. MOHSENZADEH and H. PASALARI

pp: 144-146

Abstract:
Seedlings of Phoenix dactylifera can be male or female, and this is not obvious until the plant matures. Sex determination of date palm seedlings is useful to design plantations, in order to plant the optimum ratio of male and female palms. In the present study, PCR-based RAPD analysis with 36 random primers was used to generate a marker to identify sex in date palm. One male-specific marker of 520 bp was amplified from the genomic DNA of ‘Zamardan’, a male cultivar of Iranian date palm. This band was absent in the PCR products of genomic DNA from female trees.

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