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Redalyc.Plant Breeding and in Situ Utilization of Palm Trees Ciência Rural ISSN: 0103-8478 [email protected] Universidade Federal de Santa Maria Brasil Rivas, Mercedes; Barbieri, Rosa Lía; da Maia, Luciano Carlos Plant breeding and in situ utilization of palm trees Ciência Rural, vol. 42, núm. 2, febrero, 2012, pp. 261-269 Universidade Federal de Santa Maria Santa Maria, Brasil Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=33121626009 How to cite Complete issue Scientific Information System More information about this article Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal Journal's homepage in redalyc.org Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative Ciência Rural, Santa Maria, v.42, n.2,Plant p.261-269, breeding fev, and 2012 in situ utilization of palm trees. 261 ISSN 0103-8478 Plant breeding and in situ utilization of palm trees Melhoramento genético e utilização in situ de palmeiras Mercedes RivasI Rosa Lía BarbieriII Luciano Carlos da MaiaIII - REVIEW - ABSTRACT espécies estão submetidas a programas de melhoramento genético e são cultivadas a nível mundial. Este é o caso da The palm tree family (Arecaceae) is constituted by palmeira de dendê (Elaeis guineensis), na qual consórcios de approximately 3000 species mainly distributed in the tropics investimento e desenvolvimento investem altas quantias de and subtropics. As a source of a variety of products they dinheiro. Outro tipo de palmeira cultivada é a tamareira contribute to the world and local economies, and also to peoples (Phoenix dactylifera), a qual foi domesticada milhares de anos lifestyles. Historically their use has been based on wild atrás e cujo sucesso está baseado na exportação de produtos populations, but also on local domestication. Very few species com reconhecimento mundial. Nesse caso, a produção está are subject of plant breeding programs and are cultivated in baseada em variedades tradicionais e os programas de the world. This is the case of the African oil palm (Elaeis melhoramento ainda são incipientes. Um terceiro grupo de guineensis), in which investment and development consortiums palmeiras inclui aquelas espécies cujos produtos são obtidos e invest high sums. Another kind of crop is the date palm (Phoenix manufaturados para o desenvolvimento local. O objetivo desta dactylifera), which was domesticated thousand of years ago revisão bibliográfica é contribuir para a análise de and whose success is based in the export of a fine product with oportunidades e fragilidades no investimento em domesticação worldwide recognition. In this case the production is based on e programas de melhoramento das palmeiras com valor traditional varieties and has very incipient breeding programs. produtivo reconhecido. A third group of palms includes those species from which products are obtained and manufactured for local development. Palavras-chave: Arecaceae, Elaeis guineenis, Phoenix The objective of this literature review is to contribute in the dactylifera, domesticação, manejo in situ. analysis of opportunities and weaknesses to investing in domestication and plant breeding programs in those palm trees with a recognized productive value. INTRODUCTION Key words: Arecaceae, Elaeis guineenis, Phoenix dactylifera, domestication, in situ management. It is estimated that the Palmae or Arecaceae family comprises approximately 189 genera and about RESUMO 3000 species, which a classified in five sub-families A família das palmeiras (Arecaceae) é constituída with a variable number of tribes and sub-tribes por aproximadamente 3000 espécies, distribuídas (DRANSFIELD et al., 2005). They are distributed mainly principalmente nos trópicos e subtrópicos. Como fonte de uma in tropical and subtropical areas, although a few of variedade de produtos, contribuem para a economia mundial e local, e também para o modo de vida de várias pessoas. them can be found at higher latitudes in the southern Historicamente, seu uso tem sido baseado em populações hemisphere. The main diversification centers are found silvestres, mas também em domesticações locais. Muito poucas in the equatorial coast of Africa, Oceania, the Brazilian IFacultad de Agronomía, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, 1290, Uruguay. E-mail: [email protected]. Autor para correspondência. IIEMBRAPA Clima temperado, Pelotas, RS, Brasil. IIIFaculdade de Agronomia “Eliseu Maciel” (FAEM), Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPel), Pelotas, RS, Brasil. Received 05.04.11 Approved 09.23.11 Returned by the author 01.25.12Ciência Rural, v.42, n.2, fev, 2012. CR-5286 262 Rivas et al. coast, the Amazon, Indonesia and the Antilles (MOORE The African oil palm is the oil crop of highest & UHL, 1982). yield, with yield averages of 3-4 tons per hectare by The palm trees affects significantly both the year of mesocarp oil. This means that its productivity economy and the everyday of million of people around is several times higher than most of the oil crops. Also the world. Its contribution to the world economy, the the African oil palm can produce an average 0.5tons of local economies and the people life styles is huge. It is kernels per hectare per year, which contain also surprising the huge number of products that can approximately a 47% of oil (WAHID et al., 2005). be obtained from these species. Among the food Experimental yields have reached 12tons of oil per products can be highlighted the fruits, seeds, the hectare per year, so if the breach between the ‘palmito’, honeys, ‘sagu’ (material with starch extracted experimental data and the field results diminish, the from the centre of the trunks), different drinks obtained African oil palm will keep on expanding it’s differences from the sap or the fruits, crystallized sugar from the in yield in relation to other oil crops as soybeans (SOH sap, among others. Other kinds of products are fibers, et al., 2003). oils and waxes. In these different ways, palm trees Most of the production is realized in contribute to the food, housing, furniture, energy, Malaysia and Indonesia, with 8.900.000 hectares and a clothing and gardens (JONES, 1995). Most of the palm production of the 82% of the entire world volume of trees are used directly in nature, under different mesocarp oil in 2008 (FAO, 2010). Other countries that extractivism rates which in some cases lead to genetic produce the crop are Nigeria, RD Congo, Ivory Coast, erosion. Ghana, Guinea, Colombia, Ecuador, Papua New Guinea, The main species cultivated are the African Honduras, Brazil and Cameroon, among others. oil palm (Elaeis guineensis), the coconut tree (Cocos The history of the genetic improvement of nucifera), the date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) and the these species and the main scientific and technological betel nut palm (Areca catechu) with 14.585.811, developments are presented here, with the objective 11.208.072, 1.264.611 and 834,878 hectares respectively of understanding the bases on which it has been in 2008 (FAO, 2010). domesticated and an industry of great importance With the objective of studying the different established. situations in which the palm trees are used we will In the Asian Southeast (Indonesia and present the case of the African oil palm as an example Malaysia), the genetic improvement has been based of a crop with an important investment in the on a population of palms named ‘Deli dura’, which was development of plant breeding, machinery, developed with the objective of improving oil quality agrochemicals, tissue culture, oil fractionation and oil starting from only four palms brought by the Dutchs in chemistry (CORLEY & TINKER, 2003); and more 1848 to the botanical garden Buitenzorg (now Bogor) recently in molecular genetics and genetic engineering. in Indonesia (WAHID et al., 2005). The fruits are of the An intermediate situation is found for the date palm, a type ‘dura’, which means that they present a thick successfully crop but with smaller economic importance. Finally we will consider the situation of endocarp, but they present some differential species under domestication that are used by gathering. characteristics in relation to the ‘dura’ germplasm of Africa: paler fruits, of major size and with higher content The African Oil Palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) of oil in the mesocarp. At the beginning of genetic The genus Elaeis belongs to the subfamily improvement, crosses were made among the most Arecoideae, tribe Cocoseae and subtribe Elaeidinae, productive individuals of ‘Deli dura’ (CORLEY & according the classification by DRANSFIELD et al. TINKER, 2003). (2005). It is represented by two species, E. guineensis In Africa, using different germplasm, the crop Jacq. and E. oleifera H.B.K. Other two possible species improvement took different directions. The palms with of the genus are controversial, Elaeis odora of South thin endocarp (‘teneras’) were used in plant breeding America and Elaeis madagascariensis of Madagascar. due their high oil content by inflorescence. When these The African oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) is endemic of palms were crossed their progeny showed a 25% of the tropical rain forests of the central and western Africa, plants without endocarp and female sterility spreading over Angola, Cameroon, Congo, Ghana, (‘pisiferas’), which allowed to understand that this Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Zaire. E. oleifera extends in characteristic was determined by a single gene the tropical area of America from Mexico to the Amazon (CORLEY & TINKER, 2003). (Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia and Peru) (SOH et al., 2003). The most productive variety actually Both species cross and produce fertile hybrids cultivated is of ‘tenera’ type with thin endocarp, (BARCELOS et al., 2002). generated by crosses between ‘dura’ germplasm and Ciência Rural, v.42, n.2, fev, 2012. Plant breeding and in situ utilization of palm trees. 263 ‘pisifera’ genotypes that act as pollen donors (WAHID is explained by its development after four to five et al., 2005). Starting from distributed progenies of the generations of mass selection in a context of inbreeding ‘Deli’ and its selection in different breeding programs, of scarce original materials. subpopulations were developed, of which 13 would be In relation to the countries and regions of in use nowadays (PURBA et al., 2000).
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