The oil palm tissue culture (OPTC) process involves many stages that generate enormous amount of information starting from sampling of ortets, culturing of explants, calli, embryoids, polyembryoids, shoots, transplanted ramets and planting in fields. Every OPTC laboratory has its own way of collecting data, from the conventional manual entry into forms, spreadsheets and/or databases etc. In MPOB, a relational database management system simply known as the Tissue Culture Database System (TCDS) was used since 2000 on a standalone personal computer (Zamzuri, 2001).

Main Researcher: Zamzuri Ishak
Email: zamzuri@mpob.gov.my