RESULTS
Phenotypic data 
In the Tamar stage, among other changes, date palm fruit color varies from light brown to dark brown. For the genome-wide analysis study, we used the intensity of Red, Green & blue color channels and the ratio of Red/Blue ( R/B), Red/Green (R/G ), and Green/Blue (G/B) as phenotype. Manual analysis of fruit images with the ratio of Red and Blue channel intensity (R/B) showed that higher values of R/B are associated with light brown and lower R/B values with dark brown (Figure 1). We, therefore, focused our analysis on R/B color phenotype for the genome-wide analysis of fruit color.