Maximum land use of oil palm area through crop integration can generate additional income to farmers especially during the immature phase of oil palm. One of the crops which has been identified suitable to be integrated with oil palm is pisang berangan. It is very popular among Malaysians and highly demanded for local consumption. It […]

Bactris gasipaes also known as peach palm or pejibaye is an important food crop in the humid lowlands of Central and South America. This species gives two edible products; starchy fruits and palm heart (salad). There is a great pressure to diversify the current plantation crops which are largely dominated by oil palm, rubber and […]

Vitamin E is a fat-soluble vitamin, naturally present in small amounts in vegetable oils. It consists of eight tocopherol and tocotrienol isomers, namely, α-, β-, γ-, δ-tocopherols and tocotrienols. Vitamin E acts as an antioxidant and plays an important role in the stabilization of oils and fats. Vitamin E components in palm oil especially γ- and […]

Oil yield (OY) is the most important selection criteria in breeding improvement programme. One way to increase OY is through increasing the bunch index (BI) besides increasing the oil to bunch ratio. BI is derived from the ratio of bunch dry matter to total dry matter production (BDM/BDM+VDM). Estimation of the parameter requires the measurement […]

Stearoyl-ACP desaturase (SAD) is an important fatty acid biosynthetic enzyme responsible for the production of oleic acid. It is a soluble enzyme in the plastid which introduces a cis double bond into saturated stearoyl-ACP (18:0-ACP) at the ∆9 position to produce mono-unsaturated oleoyl-ACP (18:1-ACP) (Figure 1). It has an important housekeeping role for producing unsaturated […]