Abstract
The date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) is a dioecious plant that holds importance due to the nutritional value of its fruit. Genetic improvement in the date palm can be accelerated through the use of molecular markers. A lack of molecular markers in the date palm can restrict its applications for molecular breeding. Also, because female date palm plants are of economic importance as they bear the fruit, sex identification at an early stage is highly desirable, as it takes 4–5years before the first flowering occurs in plants raised through seeds. In this chapter, we describe various molecular markers that have been used for various aspects in date palm improvement and sequence-characterized amplified region (SCAR) markers to identify the sex in date palms at the seedling stage.
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