Date Domestication

Gros-Balthazard, M., Galimberti, M., Kousathanas, A., Newton, C., Ivorra, S., Paradis, L., … Wegmann, D. (2017). The Discovery of Wild Date Palms in Oman Reveals a Complex Domestication History Involving Centers in the Middle East and Africa. Current Biology, 27(14), 2211-2218.e8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.06...
Gros-Balthazard, M., Newton, C., Ivorra, S., Pierre, M. H., Pintaud, J. C., & Terral, J. F. (2016). The domestication syndrome in Phoenix dactylifera seeds: Toward the identification of wild date palm populations. PLoS ONE, 11(3), 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone....
Terral, J. F., Newton, C., Ivorra, S., Gros-Balthazard, M., de Morais, C. T., Picq, S., … Pintaud, J. C. (2012). Insights into the historical biogeography of the date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) using geometric morphometry of modern and ancient seeds. Journal of Biogeography, 39(5), 929–941. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2699.2...