Elaeis oleifera (Kunth) Cortés: A neglected palm from the Ecuadorian Amazon
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Ecuador, Elaeis guineensis, fruit abscission, oil palm, palms
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Knowledge of the biology of Ecuadorian palms remains very limited. A particular case is the American oil palm, Elaeis oleifera (Kunth) Cortés, first described in Ecuador in 1986. The genus Elaeis has a trans-Atlantic (Africa-America) distribution, with E. oleifera from the Neotropics and E. guineensis Jacq. from Africa. It has been hypothesized that E. oleifera derives from populations of E. guineensis, which diverged 15 million years ago. At the local level, the populations of E. oleifera have a disjunctive distribution, with isolated populations within the Amazon and Caribbean regions, frequently associated with human or archaeological settlements. Despite the spatial and historical separation between the two species, there are no reproductive barriers to the generation of fertile hybrids. This important reproductive characteristic has allowed E. oleifera to become a major source of genetic variation for the improvement and adaptability of commercial populations of E. guineensis throughout the planet. The Ecuadorian populations of E. oleifera from Taisha - with morphological, reproductive and agronomically important biochemical characteristics - have been used for the creation of commercial hybrids, which today are planted in tropical regions.
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Montúfar R, Louise C, Tranbarger T. Elaeis oleifera (Kunth) Cortés: A neglected palm from the Ecuadorian Amazon. REMCB [Internet]. 2018May21 [cited 2024Jul.3];39(1). Available from: https://remcb-puce.edu.ec/remcb/article/view/584
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Ortega Cedillo D, Barrera C, Morillo E, Quintero L, Ortega JD, Orellana J, Cevallos V, Salgado C, Souza P, Damiao C. 2016 Genetic Diversity Within and Between Accessions of Elaeis oleifera From the Ecuadorian Amazon. International Journal of Agriculture and Environmental Research 2(5): 1480-1493.
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Singh R, Low ETL, Ooi LCL, Ong-Abdullah M, Ting NC, Nagappan J, Nookiah R, Amiruddin MD, Rosli R, Manaf MAA, Chan KL, Halim MA, Azizi N, Lakey N, Smith SW, Budiman MA, Hogan M, Bacher B, Van Brunt A, Wang CY, Ordway JM, Sambanthamurthi R, Martienssen RA. 2013a. The oil palm SHELL gene controls oil yield and encodes a homologue of SEEDSTICK. Nature 500: 340-344.
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Tranbarger TJ, Dussert S, Joet T, Argout X, Summo M, Champion A, Cros D, Omore A, Nouy B, Morcillo F. 2011. Regulatory mechanisms underlying oil palm fruit mesocarp maturation, ripening, and functional specialization in lipid and carotenoid metabolism. Plant Physiology 156: 564-584.
United States Department of Agriculture, USDA. World Agricultural Production, Circular Series WAP, 2-18, February, 2018.
Valencia R, Montúfar R. 2013. Capítulo I: Diversidad y Endemismo. In: Valencia R, Montúfar R, Navarrete H, Balslev H, editors. Palmas Ecuatorianas: Biología y Uso sostenible. Quito: Publicaciones del Herbario QCA, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. p. 3-16.
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Zeven AC. 1964. On the Origin of the Oil Palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) Grana Palynologica 5: 121-123.
AAU Herbarium Database. 2011. Identification: Elaeis oleifera. Balslev H., Specimen #8512. Aarhus University, Denmark. Available from: http://www.aubot.dk/search_results.php?collector=&number=&number_min=&number_max=&sp_set=all&country=&family=&identification=Elaeis+oleifera&typeOf=&order=collectorReverse&order_dir=ASC&search_log=true&Submit=search
Acosta Solís M. 1971. Palmas Ecuatorianas del Noroccidente Ecuatoriano. Naturaleza Ecuatoriana Vol I (2): 80-163.
Arias D, Gonzalez M, Prada F, Ayala-Diaz I, Montoya C, Daza E, Romero HM. 2015 Genetic and phenotypic diversity of natural American oil palm (Elaeis oleifera (HBK) Cortés) accessions. Tree Genetics & Genomes 11: 122.
Auffray T, Frerot B, Poveda R, Louise C, Beaudoin-Ollivier L. 2017. Diel Patterns of Activity for Insect Pollinators of Two Oil Palm Species (Arecales : Arecaceae). Journal of Insect Science 17(2): 45;1-6.
Baker WJ, Couvreur TLP. 2013. Global biogeography and diversification of palms sheds light on the evolution of tropical lineages. I. Historical biogeography. Journal of Biogeography 40: 274-285.
Balée W. 1989. The Culture of Amazonian Forest. Advances in Economic Botany 7: 1-21.
Balslev H, Henderson A. 1986. Elaeis oleifera (Palmae) encontrada en el Ecuador. Publicaciones Museo Ecuatoriano de Ciencias Naturales 5: 45-49.
Balslev H. 1987. Palmas nativas de la Amazonía ecuatoriana. Colibrà3: 64-73.
Barba J, Baquero Y, Mendoza L. 2014. Genetic Diversity of oil palm: a source for ecological intensification of oil palm in area affected by but rot disease. 4th International Conference on Oil Palm and Environment (ICOPE). Available from: http://www.palmardelrio.com/sitio/files/Presentacin_Ecupalma_Abril_2014_J_Barba_PDR.pdf
Barba J, Baquero Y. 2013. Híbridos O x G obtenidos a partir de oleíferas Taisha Palmar del Río (PDR), Ecuador. Variedad-PDR (Taisha x Avros). Palmas 34:315-325.
Barcelos E, Rios SD, Cunha RNV, Lopes R, Motoike SY, Babiychuk E, Skirycz A, Kushnir S. 2015. Oil palm natural diversity and the potential for yield improvement. Frontiers in Plant Science 6:190. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00190
Borchsenius F, Borgtoft Pedersen H, Balslev H. 1998. Manual to the Palms of Ecuador. AAU Report 37. Department of Systematic Botany, University of Aarhus.
Borgtoft Pedersen H, Balslev H. 1993. Palmas útiles: especies ecuatorianas para agroforestería y extractivismo. Quito: ABYA-YALA. 158 p.
Bourgis F, Kilaru A, Cao X, Ngando-Ebongue GF, Drira N, Ohlrogge JB, Arondel V. 2011. Comparative transcriptome and metabolite analysis of oil palm and date palm mesocarp that differ dramatically in carbon partitioning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 108: 12527-12532.
Corley RHV, Tinker PB. 2016. The Oil Palm, Fifth edition. UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. The Atrium, South Gate, West Sussex. 687 p.
Dransfield J, Uhl N, Asmussen C, Baker WJ, Harley M, Lewis C. 2008. Genera Palmarum. The evolution and Classification of palms. UK: Kew Publishing, Royal Botanical Gardens. 732 p.
Dussert S, Guerin C, Andersson M, Joet T, Tranbarger TJ, Pizot M, Sarah G, Omore A, Durand-Gasselin T, Morcillo F. 2013. Comparative Transcriptome Analysis of Three Oil Palm Fruit and Seed Tissues That Differ in Oil Content and Fatty Acid Composition. Plant Physiology 162: 1337-1358.
Ecocrop. 2007. Elaeis oleifera. Data Sheet. Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO). http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/dataSheet?id=5632
FAOSTAT. 2018. Available from: http://www.fao.org/faostat
Fooyontphanich K, Morcillo F, Amblard P, Collin M, Jantasuriyarat C, Tangphatsornruang S, Verdeil JL, Tranbarger TJ. 2016. A phenotypic test for delay of abscission and non-abscission oil palm fruit and validation by abscission marker gene expression analysis. Acta Horticulturae 1119: 97-104.
Guerin C, Joet T, Serret J, Lashermes P, Vaissayre V, Agbessi MD, Beule T, Severac D, Amblard P, Tregear J, Durand-Gasselin T, Morcillo F, Dussert S. 2016. Gene coexpression network analysis of oil biosynthesis in an interspecific backcross of oil palm. The Plant Journal 87: 423-441.
Henderson A. 1995. The Palms of the Amazon. New York: Oxford University Press. 337 p.
Henderson A, Galeano G, Bernal R. 1995. Field Guide to the Palms of the Americas. Princeton University Press, New Jersey. 352 p.
INABIO. 2017. Agenda Nacional de Investigación sobre la Biodiversidad. Quito: MAE, SENESCYT e INABIO. 20 p.
IndexMundi. 2018. Available from: https://www.indexmundi.com/
Lieb VM, Kerfers MR, Kronmuller A, Esquivel P, Alvarado A, Jimenez VM, Schmarr HG, Carle R, Schweiggert RM, Steingass CB. 2017. Characterization of Mesocarp and Kernel Lipids from Elaeis guineensis Jacq., Elaeis oleifera [Kunth] Cortes, and Their Interspecific Hybrids. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 65: 3617-3626.
Marin-Burgos V, Clancy JS. 2017. Understanding the expansion of energy crops beyond the global biofuel boom: evidence from oil palm expansion in Colombia. Energy Sustainability and Society 7:21. DOI 10.1186/s13705-017-0123-2
Meléndez MR, Ponce WP. 2016. Pollination in the oil palms Elaeis guineensis,. E. oleifera and their hybrids (OxG), in tropical America. Pesquisa Agropecuária. Tropical 46 (1): 102-110.
Montúfar R, Borchsenius F, Mogollón H. 2011. Arecaceae. In: León-Yánez S, Valencia R, Pitman N., Endara L., Ulloa Ulloa C., Navarrete H, editors. Libro Rojo de las plantas endémicas del Ecuador, 2d. edition, Quito: Publicaciones del Herbario QCA, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. p. 128-131.
Morcillo F, Gros D, Billotte N, Ngando-Ebongue G-F, Domonhédo H, Pizot M, Cuellar T, Espeout S, Dhouib R, Bourgis F, Claverol S, Tranbarger TJ, Nouy B, Arondel V. 2013. Improving world palm oil production: identification and mapping of the lipase gene causing oil deterioration. Nature Communications 4: 2160. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3160
Murphy D. 2006. Molecular breeding strategies for the modification of lipid composition. In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Plant 42: 89-99.
Murphy DJ. 2009. Oil palm: future prospects for yield and quality improvements. Lipid Technology 21: 257-260.
Murphy DJ. 2014. The Future of Oil Palm as a Major Global Crop: Opportunities and Challenges. Journal of Oil Palm Research 26:1-24.
Ortega Cedillo D, Barrera C, Morillo E, Quintero L, Ortega JD, Orellana J, Cevallos V, Salgado C, Souza P, Damiao C. 2016 Genetic Diversity Within and Between Accessions of Elaeis oleifera From the Ecuadorian Amazon. International Journal of Agriculture and Environmental Research 2(5): 1480-1493.
Renner S. 2004. Plant dispersal across the tropical Atlantic by wind and sea currents. International Journal of Plant Sciences 165: S23-S33.
Singh R, Low ETL, Ooi LCL, Ong-Abdullah M, Ting NC, Nagappan J, Nookiah R, Amiruddin MD, Rosli R, Manaf MAA, Chan KL, Halim MA, Azizi N, Lakey N, Smith SW, Budiman MA, Hogan M, Bacher B, Van Brunt A, Wang CY, Ordway JM, Sambanthamurthi R, Martienssen RA. 2013a. The oil palm SHELL gene controls oil yield and encodes a homologue of SEEDSTICK. Nature 500: 340-344.
Singh R, Ong-Abdullah M, Low ETL, Manaf MAA, Rosli R, Nookiah R, Ooi LCL, Ooi SE, Chan KL, Halim MA, Azizi N, Nagappan J, Bacher B, Lakey N, Smith SW, He D, Hogan M, Budiman MA, Lee EK, DeSalle R, Kudrna D, Goicoechea JL, Wing RA, Wilson RK, Fulton RS, Ordway JM, Martienssen RA, Sambanthamurthi R. 2013b. Oil palm genome sequence reveals divergence of interfertile species in Old and New Worlds. Nature 500: 335-339.
Smith N. 2015. Elaeis oleifera 32. In: Palms and People in the Amazon, Geobotany Studies, Springer International Publishing Switzerland. p. 225-234.
Tranbarger TJ, Dussert S, Joet T, Argout X, Summo M, Champion A, Cros D, Omore A, Nouy B, Morcillo F. 2011. Regulatory mechanisms underlying oil palm fruit mesocarp maturation, ripening, and functional specialization in lipid and carotenoid metabolism. Plant Physiology 156: 564-584.
United States Department of Agriculture, USDA. World Agricultural Production, Circular Series WAP, 2-18, February, 2018.
Valencia R, Montúfar R. 2013. Capítulo I: Diversidad y Endemismo. In: Valencia R, Montúfar R, Navarrete H, Balslev H, editors. Palmas Ecuatorianas: Biología y Uso sostenible. Quito: Publicaciones del Herbario QCA, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. p. 3-16.
Vijay V, Pimm SL, Jenkins CN, Smith SJ. 2016. The Impacts of Oil Palm on Recent Deforestation and Biodiversity Loss. PLoS ONE 11(7): e0159668. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0159668
Zeven AC. 1964. On the Origin of the Oil Palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) Grana Palynologica 5: 121-123.