Month: February 2020

The incidence of learning palms is unavoidable for oil palm planted on peat, even with mechanical compaction on the peat and applying the hole-in-hole planting technique. Palms leaning in a disorderly manner have apparently become a serious limiting factor in oil palm performance on peat (Mohd Tayeb et al., 1996). Leaning poses difficulties in field … Read more

In June 2001, MPOB introduced an innovative technique for planting oil palm during replanting (Khalid et al., 2001). The technique is to plant oil palm seedlings into the rows of the old palm biomass residues. The large amount of biomass available during replanting contains significant amounts of nutrients which can be recycled for the succeeding … Read more

In oil palm bunch analysis, one of the bunch quality components measured is kernel content. This has been determined by manually cracking oil palm nuts using a hammer. Such a method results in broken kernels, which make separation of the kernels from the broken shells cumbersome and time consuming. In order to overcome the slow … Read more

MPOB has identified genetic engineering as a promising technology which can be utilized to face challenges such as labour shortage, limited land resources and fluctuations in commodity prices. The production of transgenic oil palm with useful genes has a clear advantage as it could increase the return per unit area. Expression of foreign genes in … Read more

Liquid cultures using cionventional flasks on shakers usually involve small volume (Tarmizi et al., 2003). For scaling up purposes, a commercial bioreactor is more expensive and involves tedious inoculation procedures (Tarmizi et al., 2004). Previously , MPOB developed and introduced the Modified Vessel (MoVess) to improve the agitation of cultures in liquid medium (Tarmizi et al., … Read more