“…Zygotic embryo (ZE) is an excellent source of explant that has a great potential to develop into somatic embryo (SE) due to high responsiveness, abundance, high availability and high degree of physiological uniformity (Ree and Guerra, 2015). It has been used as a starting plant material for somatic embryogenesis in many plant species including palm trees such as Euterpe precatoria Mart (Ferreira et al, 2022a) oil palm (Weckx et al, 2019;Heedchim et al, 2020;Niha et al, 2022), Areca catechu L. (Wang et al, 2003), Euterpe edulis (Saldanha and Martins-Corder, 2012), Butia odorata (Campos et al, 2020) and Eleiodoxa conferta (Griff.) Burr.…”