African oil palm
= African oil palm
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= Elaeis guineensis
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The <African oil palm>, <Elaeis guineensis>, is a tropical <plant> cultivated for oils from its <fruits> and <seeds>. Clonal propagation makes it an important example of the difference between matching genetic sequence and maintaining a normal developmental state.<Loss of Karma transposon methylation underlies the mantled somaclonal variant of oil palm by Meilina Ong-Abdullah and others>[2015, abstract]{ref}