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The Flameless Sterilizer** is an electrical device designed for heat sterilization of tissue culture (TC) glass containers (for mouth-rim region) and surgical apparatus. It is a replacement for the flaming process that is commonly conducted using a Bunsen burner or alcohol lamp. The sterilizer has a circular heating coil in the centre where the TC … Read more

As an alternative to culture on solid medium, the use of liquid culture for oil palm propagation has been attempted in order to explore its potential for automation and scaling-up propagule production as well as for improving growth and culture uniformity (de Touchet et al., 1991; Teixeira et al., 1995; Wong et al.,1999). However, a … Read more

The American oil palm, Elaeis oleifera (Figure 1) possesses attributes of interest such as slow height increment rate (Hardon and Tan, 1969; Obasola, 1973; Meunier and Boutin, 1975; Tam et al., 1977) and high I.V. (Hardon, 1969; Macfarlane et al., 1975). Lately, its high carotene content has been advocated as potentially useful for the pharmaceutical … Read more

The migration of labour in the agricultural sector to the industrial sector greatly necessitates the development of machines to replace the time-consuming and manual field activities. In the industrial sector, workers have lighter and easier job which are in contrast to the back-breaking job in oil palm fresh fruit bunches (FFB) collection. With the assistance … Read more

Fertilizing young palm since its early stage is always necessary to establish vigorous healthy trees (Caliman et al., 2001). It is also often recognized that future performance of poorly fertilized palm during immaturity might be affected for its whole life cycle. Main Researcher: Salmah Jahis  Email: salmah@mpob.gov.my