Date palm

Dattel,/. date, -baum, m., -palme,/. date tree, date palm, -pflaume, /. persimmon, date plum, -wein, m. date wine, -zucker, m. date sugar. 

Pasturelands where Brent geese (Branta bernicla) and Canada geese (.Branta canadensis) were grazing Iraqi date palm (Phoenix sp.) orchards... 

Two related scarab species produce ethyl 4-methyloctanoate 78 (Scheme 8) as an aggregation pheromone the African rhinoceros beetle Oryctes monoceros [170] and the coconut rhinoceros beetle Oryctes rhinoceros [171, 172]. The latter is readily attracted to the racemate. Its secretion was found to contain the free acid as well as ethyl 4-methylheptanoate [ 171 ]. Similarly to other cases, the attractiveness of ethyl 4-methyloctanoate is enhanced by host compounds, i.e. coconut wood [173]. The date palm fruit stalk borer, Oryctes elegans, uses 4-methyloctanoic acid as a male produced pheromone [174]. Structurally... 

Platzner I, Degani N (1990) Fractionation of stable calcium isotopes in tissues of date palm trees. Biomed Environ Mass Spect 19 822-824... 

Peculiar," I muttered to myself as we swung into sight of the mission overlooking its placid lake, with a row of date palms sweeping up from the boat landing. 

Two old friends, Arabian somehow, yet more ancient, sit in a palace far older than themselves, set on a mountainside surrounded by vineyards, date palms, and citrus orchards. Insomniac and affable, they pass the long starry hours preceding dawn in the smoking of hashish and the propounding of riddles. 

Many plants contain estrogenic compounds. Estrone (Fig. 11.11) is found in seeds of date palms, pomegranates, and apples, and estriol in willow. These may be merely by-products of sterol metabolism, or serve a particular function. Harborne (1993) proposed that plants synthesize steroid hormones to deter feeding by mammals. Estrogenic compounds in plants are thought to upset the delicate hormone balance of mammals. 

Phoenix dactyiifera (Date palm) 10.0 —60.6 (chloroform) f of permethyl ... 

Daayf, F., El-Bellaj, M., El-Hassni, M., J Aiti, F., El-Hadrami, I. Elicitation of soluble phenolics in date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) callus by Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. albedinis culture medium. Environ Exp Bot 2003 49 41-47. 

Glycyrrhiga glabra (Fabaceae), Salix sp. (willow) (Salicaceae) [flower] animals Oestriol isolated by Edward Doisy (USA) (Nobel Prize, Medicine, 1943, with Henrik Dam, Vitamin K) Phoenix dactylfera (date palm) (Palmae) [pollen, seed], fea mays (Poaceae) [seed oil],... 

Helianthus annuus (Asteraceae), Viciafaba (Fabaceae), Phoenix dactylifera (date palm) (Palmae), Rhodophyceae (marine red algae) animal membrane component hyperlipidaemia in many heart attack victims LDL carries cholesteryl esters f LDL -> cholesterol-rich arterial atheromas —> atherosclerosis -> blockage, clots — stroke myocardial infarction (heart attack)... 

Dates ate the fmit of the date palm Phoenix daciylif-era) and have been in cultivation for at least 8,000 years. Most dates are grown in Asia Minor and North Africa with an annual production of 2,000,000 metric tens. In the United States dates are grown in Arizona and California. Dates contain 70% carbohydrate but little protein (2%) or fat (2.5%). They have long been an important source of nourishment for nomadic tribes of the Arab world. Dates are usually eaten fresh but can be made into paste. Dates are sometimes mixed with a variety of milk products which increases the protein content. 

II. Order Principles.—Palmew or Palm Family.—Tropical or subtropical shrubs, rarely trees, having unbranched trunks which are terminated by a crown of leaves, in the axils of which the flowers are produced. The leaves are well developed with pinnate or palmate blades and a fibrous sheathed clasping petiole. The flowers are small, of one or two sexes, and crowded on a spike or spadix, which is subtended by a large bract, or spathe which may become woody, as in the Cocoanut Palm. The perianth consists of 6 parts in 2 whorls (3 sepals and 3 petals) or it may be inconspicuous or absent. The stamens are 6 in number, rarely 3, inserted below the ovary. The ovary is superior, of 3 cells, with central placenta. The fruit is either a nut, with leathery epicarp, fibrous or cellular mesocarp and thin membranous endocarp, or a drupe (Cocoanut) with leathery epicarp, broadly fibrous mesocarp and stony endocarp, or a berry as in the Date Palm, Phoenix, with membranous epicarp, succulent mesocarp and soft succulent endocarp. The seeds are albuminous with the reserve food frequently in the form of hard cellulose (ivory-nut-palm). 

Both carotenoids and polyphenols have been identified in dates. This rare combination of compounds may contribute antioxidant and other properties that could lower disease risk. Otherwise, the focus of research on dates has been their value as a nutrient-rich food staple and malnutrition rescue food. The date palm is one of the most prolific and least costly producers of food per hectare, with worldwide cultivation exceeding three million tons. 

Dates provide more than 3,000 calories per kilogram Look at these striking comparisons with other fruits and foods in calories per kilogram apricot, 520 banana, 970 orange, 480 cooked rice, 1,800 wheat bread, 2,295 beef (without fat), 2,245. This tilt of the balance indicates that further horticultural research to expand production of date cultivars with high nutritional value will be important for the future food supply. Researchers with the Department of Health and Human Sciences at London Metropolitan University, in the United Kingdom, have weighed in with a published paper entitled The Fruit of the Date Palm Its Possible Use as the Best Food for the Future ... 

Alhudaib, K., Arocha, Y., Wilson, M. and Jones, P. (2008). First report of a 16SrI, Candidatus Phytoplasma asteris group phytoplasma associated with a date palm disease in Saudi Arabia. Plant Pathology 57 366. 

Ragab, W.S., Ramadan, B.R., and Abdel-Sater, M.A. 2001. Mycoflora and mycotoxins associated with saidy date as affected by technological processes. Second International Conference on Date Palms, March 25-27, 2001, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates. 

Sucrose—Sucrose or cane sugar is the best known of the sugars, and is found widely distributed, being found in nearly every part of the plants. Its manufacture, however, is mainly restricted to the sugar cane in the tropics, the beetroot in temperate climates, sorghum, and sugar maple in Nortli America, and a smaller proportion from the date palm in the East. 

H. E. Annett, Date Palm. Mmoirs of Dept. of Agric., India. 1919. 

The boy awoke as the sun rose. There, in front of him, where the small stars had been the night before, was an endless row of date palms, stretching across the entire desert. 

But the boy was quiet. He was at home with the silence of the desert, and he was content just to look at the trees. He still had a long way to go to reach the pyramids, and someday this morning would just be a memory. But this was the present moment—the party the camel driver had mentioned—and he wanted to live it as he did the lessons of his past and his dreams of the future. Although the vision of the date palms would someday be... 

But none of that mattered to the alchemist. He had already seen many people come and go, and the desert remained as it was. He had seen kings and beggars walking the desert sands. The dunes were changed constantly by the wind, yet these were the same sands he had known since he was a child. He always enjoyed seeing the happiness that the travelers experienced when, after weeks of yellow sand and blue sky, they first saw the green of the date palms. Maybe God created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees, he thought. 

The boy looked around him at the date palms. He reminded himself that he had been a shepherd, and that he could be a shepherd again. Fatima was more important than his treasure. 

The boy listened to the sound of her voice, and thought it to be more beautiful than the sound of the wind in the date palms. 

He wandered for a while, keeping the date palms of the oasis within sight. He listened to the wind, and felt the stones beneath his feet. Here and there, he found a shell, and realized that the desert, in remote times, had been a sea. He sat on a stone, and allowed himself to become hypnotized by the horizon. He tried to deal with the concept of love as distinct from possession, and couldn t separate them. But Fatima was a woman of the desert, and, if anything could help him to understand, it was the desert. 

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