Low embryogenesis rates have long been the point of contention for large scale ramet production ventures. This is further exacerbated by the fact that tissue culture of the oil palm to date is still a random process. This implies that laboratories will have to practice ‘basket sampling’ to meet the demand for clonal plantlets. Ong-Abdullah […]

Jessenia palm are being gwon in the form of open-pollinated families mainly at MPOB Research Stations in an effort to evaluate at MPOB Research Stations in an effort to evaluate their yield performance and agronomic traits. Today, MPOB houses the world’s largest oil palm germplasm collection. Useful traits from this collection are being incorporated into […]

The global palm oil industry generates about 85 million tonnes of vegetation liquor annually which are discarded as palm oil mill effluent (POME). Malaysia alone produces about 45 million tonnes of POME. Discharge of the untreated waste from any edible oil process, including for palm oil, is highly polluting and this continues ti be of […]

MPOB has identified genetic engineering as a promising technology which can be utilized to face challenges such as labour short, age, 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 return  per unit area. Expression of forgien genes in […]

MPOB introduced the oil palm motorized cutter, Cantas, in 2007. Cantas is suitable for harvesting fresh fruit bunches (FFB) from palms up to 5 m tall, which is the height normally reached by palms which are less then 13 years old. Canas is easy to use and is less strenuous for the worker compared to […]