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Seed Germination in Oil Palm (Elaeis Guineensis Jacq.): a Review of Metabolic Pathways and Control Mechanisms International Journal of Molecular Sciences Review Seed Germination in Oil Palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.): A Review of Metabolic Pathways and Control Mechanisms Jing Cui 1, Emmanuelle Lamade 2,3 and Guillaume Tcherkez 1,4,* 1 Research School of Biology, ANU Joint College of Science, Australian National University, Canberra, 2601 ACT, Australia; [email protected] 2 CIRAD, UPR Systèmes de Pérennes, 34398 Montpellier, France; [email protected] 3 Systèmes de Pérennes, Université de Montpellier, CIRAD, 34398 Montpellier, France 4 Institut de Recherche en Horticulture et Semences (IRHS), Université d’Angers, INRAE Angers, 42 rue Georges Morel, 49782 Beaucouzé cedex, France * Correspondence: [email protected] Received: 1 June 2020; Accepted: 12 June 2020; Published: 13 June 2020 Abstract: Oil palm is an oil-producing crop of major importance at the global scale. Oil palm mesocarp lipids are used for myriads industrial applications, and market demand has been growing for decades. In addition, oil palm seeds are oleaginous, and the oil extracted therefrom can be used for several purposes, from food to cosmetics. As such, there is a huge need in oil palm seeds to maintain the global cohort of more than 2 billion trees. However, oil palm seed germination is a rather difficult process, not only to break dormancy, but also because it is long and often reaches lower-than-expected germination rates. Surprisingly, despite the crucial importance of germination for oil palm plantation management, our knowledge is still rather limited, in particular about germinating oil palm seed metabolism. The present review incorporates different pieces of information that have been obtained in the past few years, in oil palm and in other palm species, in order to provide an overview of germination metabolism and its control. Further insights can also be gained from other oleaginous model plants, such as Arabidopsis or canola, however, palm seeds have peculiarities that must be accounted for, to gain a better understanding of germinating seed metabolism. Keywords: oil palm; seed; lipid remobilization; germination; metabolism; haustorium 1. Introduction Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) is presently the most productive oil crop, with a total global cultivation area of 19 million ha, and a recorded production of 0.27 gigatons of fruits and 71.4 megatons of palm oil [1]. This huge cultivated surface area represents about 2.7 billion trees. On average, oil palm 1 fields are generally renewed every 25 y, thus having an average replanting turn-over of 4% y− [2], meaning that each year, about 100 million trees have to be replaced. In addition to the increase in cultivated surface area in the past decades, this generates a huge demand in oil palm sapling cultivation in nurseries and, of course, in seedling production from seed germination or in vitro cloning (Figure1) (for a review on oil palm seed distribution and management, see [ 3]). Developing new crosses or hybrids (e.g., E. guineensis x oleifera) associated with better resistance to diseases (such as fatal yellowing) also requires growing palms from seeds. However, seed germination is still a hurdle in oil palm cultivation—as in many palm species—because of the relatively short seed storage time (preferably less than 16 weeks), methods required to break dormancy, and long germination and seedling establishment time, up to 9 months in nursery and up to several years in nature. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2020, 21, 4227; doi:10.3390/ijms21124227 www.mdpi.com/journal/ijms Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2020, 21, x FOR PEER REVIEW 2 of 13 Int.dormancy, J. Mol. 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