A coconut crisis is looming with major shortages worldwide—but cloning could prevent it

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A coconut crisis is looming with major shortages worldwide—but cloning could prevent it
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It is estimated that a billion new trees will need to be planted to meet the rising demand.

, hence requiring the selection and planting of resistant varieties.

With the increasing number of food products and other industry demands for coconuts, these production problems pose a serious concern—a concern that cannot be overcome by taking a billion fruit out of production to produce a significant number of new coconut palms. Since the first study—conducted by Cutter and Wilson in 1954—to germinate the coconut embryo, in vitro studies have been undertaken. Biotechnological interventions have now been developed for coconut embryo culture, clonal propagation via somatic embryogenesis, anther culture andCoconut cloning through a process known as somatic embryogenesis is the focus of our present work.

Some cells will respond to the stimulation and begin to express certain genes to form an embryogenic mass. Many factors are involved in this process.through factors such as nutrient composition, plant growth regulator concentration and culture environmental conditions.

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