The palm biodiesel technology has been develop in MPOB since 1980s. In recent years, biodiesel has gained a significant role as a blending component for diesel fuel. Various countries including Malaysia have implemented the blending of biodiesel into diesel fuel in various ratios. Malaysia has implemented the B5 (blend of 5% biodiesel with 95% diesel […]

For oil palm calli and suspension cultures, genetic variation analysis, estimation of ganome size and observation of nuclei activity is not possible via flow cytometry due to the low population of nuclei present. Hence, image cytometry or ICM method was developed to address this issue. The approach is to quantitate the chromogenic areas of the […]

The Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) region is the most widely sequenced DNA region in fungi by PRC analysis. The sequence comparison of the fungi ITS region is widely used in taxonomy and molecular phylogeny due to the high copy number of rRNA genes. Furthermore, it is easy to amplify even from small quantities of DNA […]

MPOB Microbial Identification System 1 (MIDS 1) utilises the Biolog which is a microbial identidication tool based on biochemical analyses. Biolog was developed in 1989 by Biolog, Inc. and well-known for its ability to identify and characteriste microorganisms. It is an identification system for bacterial, yeast and fungi using a microplate that analyse a microorganism […]

The study was conducted on 20 years old palms planted on coastal soil in Sepang, Selangor. One hundred and twenty infected palms were identify for this study. The palms were selected based on the presence of Ganoderma fructification at the based on the presence of Ganoderma fructification at the base with the palms still producing […]