Muriel Gros‐Balthazard

The paper presents a gap-free, telomere-to-telomere genome assembly for date palm and 19 high-quality assemblies, revealing chromosomal structures and sex determination regions.

This study compares convolutional neural networks and geometric morphometrics for identifying plant taxa in archaeobotanical samples, finding CNNs outperform EFT even with small datasets.

DateBack compiles and standardizes archaeobotanical data on date palms, revealing cultivation timelines and regional disparities in the history of date palm use.