United Arab Emirates: Agricultural Biotechnology Annual

  |   Attaché Report (GAIN)   |   TC2023-0010
The United Arab Emirates aims to build a technologically sophisticated, knowledge-based exporting economy. Its indigenous flora are characterized by genes that tolerate a challenging environment of high temperature, drought, and salinity. The date palm, the country’s most important crop, enjoys demand regionally for its seedlings that are produced through micropropagation regeneration.

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