Part 2 of the Date Palm project features the Phoenix dactylifera, commonly known as the date palm. This flowering plant ...

The date palm, which was recognized by UNESCO on Wednesday, has for centuries played an important role in the establishment and growth of civilizations in the hot and dry regions of the Arab world.

Genome analysis reveals that North African date palms are a hybrid between cultivated date palms from the Middle East and a different, wild species of palm that grows on the island of Crete and in ...

Jaggery is a very common household food item in most of the Indian households. It is used as a sweetener in various dishes and also stands out as a solo ingredient in many preparations. Also, there ...

Methuselah, Adam, Jonah, Uriel, Boaz, Judith and Hannah—all sat dormant in Judea since biblical times. Now scientists have resurrected them in the hopes of better understanding their vanished lineage.

Dates have been one of the most important crops in the Middle East for thousands of years. © Matthew Corcoran NYU Abu Dhabi Date palms have provided food, shade and ...

Glen Oliver could not look more at home as he walked through neat rows of date palms towering like giant spiky umbrellas under the clear blue central Australian sky. "One, two, three, four," he said, ...

Eight people have died in Bangladesh after consuming contaminated raw date palm sap. From early January to mid-February, 11 cases including eight deaths from the Nipah virus have been reported across ...

2005-06-12 04:00:00 PDT Kibbutz Ketura, Israel-- It has five leaves, stands 14 inches high and is nicknamed Methuselah. It looks like an ordinary date palm seedling, but for UCLA- educated botanist ...