(MPOB Transfer of Technology)
Salak (Salacca zalacca) is a palm native to Indonesia and Malaysia. The fruits are known as snake fruit due to the reddish-brown scaly skin, growing in clusters at the base of the palm. The palm is cultivated in the wet regions of Malaysia and commonly planted under trees as it is tolerant to limited light … Read more
The oil palm is an important perennial oil crop for a number of countries in the tropics. A recent finding reported the presence of Coconut cadang-cadang viroid (CCCVd) variant in oil palm. The viroid as reported by Vadamalai (2005) implicated the movement of oil palm planting materials in Malaysia although there was no evidence of … Read more
Orange spotting (OS) disease caused by Coconut Cadang-Cadang Viroid (CCCVd) variants in oil palm was discovered by Vadamalai et al. (2006). The CCCVd variants did not manifest in any outbreak as observed on coconut in the Philippines. It is only found on isolated palms in the planting blocks indicating no spread of the viroid (Sundram … Read more
Water is one of the most important natural resources. In many regions, human well-being and ecosystem health are being seriously affected by changes in the global water cycle, caused largely by human activities. Today water scarcity is a serious issue facing our planet right along-side with climate change. Market barriers trends also have lately been … Read more
With the advancement of next generation sequencing technologies, large numbers of sequenced genomes had been generated for many large-scale sequencing projects. Accurate prediction of genes from these genomes is one of the most important steps in the genome annotation process. Many software tools and pipelines developed by various computing techniques are available for gene prediction, … Read more