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Medium scale pilot plant facilities for production of palm-based polyols with a total capacity of 150 litres is now available in MPOB. Polyols for polyurethane industry could be produced from a wide range of palm-based feedstock of different iodine values using this system. The iodine value of a feedstock tells us the ratio of reactants … Read more

When micropropagation technology was first introduced and found to be viable for the oil palm industry, its adoption was quick with full of enthusiasm. The expectation of dramatically boosting oil yield productivity by 20% – 30% was enough to incentivise the industry to intensify their efforts amidst the current pressure of limited land bank and … 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

PalmXplore is an integrated database system that provides comprehensive tools to search, retrieve and browse the predicted African oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) gene information and its associated functional annotations (Figure 1). The oil palm gene models were predicted using a combination of gene prediction pipelines including FGENESH++ (Solovyev et al., 2006) from Softberry and Seqping … Read more