Wilms, Hannes http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8671-3447
De Bièvre, Dries http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1842-1674
Longin, Kevin
Swennen, Rony http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5258-9043
Rhee, Juhee http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4257-251X
Panis, Bart http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6717-947X
Funding for this research was provided by:
Directorate-general Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid, Belgium
Rural Development Administration, Republic of Korea (Project No.PJ012225, Project No.PJ012225, Project No.PJ012225)
Article History
Received: 10 March 2021
Accepted: 2 August 2021
First Online: 15 September 2021
Competing interests
: The authors want to declare a potential conflict of interest as H.W. and B.P. are co-inventors of a patent in the PCT phase at the European Patent Office (EPO) regarding most parts of the findings that are reported here. “ZL918133 - PCT/EP2020/051889 - "CLONAL PROPAGATION OF COCONUT TREE"”. KU Leuven, Bioversity International and RDA are co-applicants (co-owners) of this patent. H.W. and K.L. are staff members of KU Leuven, J.R. is staff member of RDA and B.P. is staff member of Bioversity International D.D.B. was student at KU Leuven but has no potential conflict of interest and R.S. has no potential conflict of interest.