Tissue Culture
from Marrakech Date Palm Project
MDPP Tissue culture
The MDPP includes one of the most important date palm tissue culture laboratories accredited by the Ministry of agriculture in Morocco. The laboratory is located in Marrakech and contains the tissue culture derived date palms production building with a capacity of 80,000 plants/year and three acclimatization and hardening nurseries.
Technique used by MDPP
MDPP uses organogenesis as the main in-vitro technique to mass propagate date palm. Organogenesis ensures true-to-typeness of the produced date palm material & consists of four steps: explant introduction & initiation of meristematic buds (starting stage), multiple shoot formation, elongation &, rooting.
Automation of the in vitro is in progress, we will be launching a Beta 2024.
Breeding of specimens of healthy selected female cultivars (disease and pest-free), Bayoud resistant cultivars, or males having superior pollen with useful metaxenia characteristics which can easily and rapidly multiplied;
Advantages of Date Palm Tissue culture
Large scale multiplication by means of an accelerated method of organogensis and variants;
No seasonal effect on plants because they can be multiplied under controlled conditions in the laboratory throughout the year;
Production of genetically uniform plants;
Ensure an easy and fast exchange of plant material between different regions of a country or between countries without any risk of the spread of diseases and pests;
Economically reliable when large production is required
