Twenty Pakistani date palm cultivars from nine different geographical regions were characterized to estimate the
polymorphism and possible similarity level. Nineteen morphological traits were explored and subjected to principal
component analysis (PCA), cluster analysis (CA) and correlation index. The results brought out important differences in
phenotypic characters in all date palm cultivars. Principal component analysis (PCA) indicated that all quantitative traits
along with number of wings, frequency of wings, seed surface and seed shape were highly divergent. Similarly cluster
analyses (CA) also revealed morphological variability among date palm cultivars and, some relationship and heterogeneity
was also observed within cultivars of the same origin.
Summar A. Naqvi, Iqrar A. Khan, Jean Christophe Pintaud, M. Jafar Jaskani, Asif Ali. (2015) Morphological Characterization Of Pakistani Date Palm (Phoenix Dactylifera L.) Genotypes, , Volume-52, Issue-3.
