🗞️📜Fresh from the press! Our new paper shows that the Cape Verde date palm actually evolved from the date palm crop🧬 with interesting implications for conservation and breeding of drought resistant varieties 🌴🏝️
Read more: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

These findings align with earlier work by Sonia Sarmiento-Cabello and Pedro Sosa et. al - great to see independent studies converging!
Read their study here: www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/13...

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Thanks to my supervisors @metallophyte.bsky.social, @latinorchidbot.bsky.social, @murielgrosb.bsky.social, @billbaker.bsky.social and many others 🧬🌴

🗞️📜Fresh from the press! Our new paper shows that the Cape Verde date palm actually evolved from the date palm crop🧬 with interesting implications for conservation and breeding of drought resistant varieties 🌴🏝️
Read more: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...