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100 Dates! Genome Sequencing Project

United Arab EmiratesAgriculture, food and veterinary genomicsCompleted / retained

UAE-led effort to sequence diverse date-palm cultivars, resolve population structure and domestication, and generate breeding-relevant variants.

01 / Project overview

What the record establishes.

Geographic scope: UAE-led international date-palm collection spanning 12 countries
Project type: crop comparative genomics consortium
Research domain: agricultural genomics, crop diversity, and breeding
Years: 2012–2015
Lifecycle status: completed major initial dataset
Status basis: NYU Abu Dhabi described active collaboration through 2015, and the consortium published whole-genome resequencing of its multi-country cultivar panel.
Status evidence date: 2015-10-01
Scale: 62 cultivars from 12 countries in the principal resequencing release; approximately seven million SNPs. Early ambition extended to hundreds or more genomes.

02 / Organizations and population

Lead organizations: New York University Abu Dhabi Center for Genomics and Systems Biology · United Arab Emirates University
Partner organizations: University of Baghdad · international date-palm researchers and germplasm holders
Organism / population: Date palm cultivars (Phoenix dactylifera)

03 / Data and access

Publication and deposited sequence data where cited by the paper.

No public accession or identifier is listed for this record.

04 / Evidence and provenance

Named, multi-country, multi-cultivar crop-genomics project with a reusable variant resource.

Historical project. Do not confuse with Qatar's separate WCM-Q date-palm genome program.

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