Malaysian Palm Oil Board
Satellite remote sensing (RS) technology using optical and radar remote sensing techniques have been used successfully in various applications related to earth resource studies and environmental monitoring. Some advantages of these techniques are cost effectiveness, wide coverage, near real-time data acquisition and frequent revisit capability. RS has significant potential to aid oil palm monitoring and detection […]
Peat with an area totalling approximately 2.6 million hectares is considered a major problem soil in Malaysia (Mutalib et al., 1991). In Sarawak alone, peat area covers approximately 1.6 million hectares or 13% of the total land area in the state (Teng, 2003). The poor inherent physical and chemical properties of peat make its development for […]
Advances in MPOB’s genetic engineering programme have made it possible to genetically engineer oil palm for producing valuable commercial products such as high oleate, high stearate and biodegradable plastics. New approaches have been invented to produce transgenic palms such as establishment of a transformation system, isolation of important genes and promoters, construction of transformation vectors with the […]
Main Research: Zubaidah Ramli
Surface and interfacial tension is a force that keeps a fluid together at the air/ fluid and fluid/oil interface respectively (Figure 1). It is the intermolecular force of attraction between adjacent molecules, expressed in force per unit width as dynes centimetre-1 (dynes cm-1) or milliNewtons metre (mN m-1). Water, at ambient temperature, has a high surface […]