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Abstract: Charcoal production is re-emerging industry. It not only supplies fuel in developing countries, but in recent decades, it has also supplied new multifuctional materials for environmental improvement and agricultural applications  in developed countries. These applications include air dehumidification and deodorisation, water purification and soil improvement using charcoal’s excellent adsoption capacity. Paradoxically, charcoal production might … Read more

Wood-based downstream in Malaysia mostly rubberwood (RW) as their main raw material for manufactured products, and there is high demand particularly from  the panel composite sector. Recently, there was insufficient supply due to high proliferation of such industries in Malaysia. The unsecure supply and price hike of RW has led the panel industries to look … Read more

Malaysia is the second largest producer of palm oil in the world. The major problems faced by the industry are labour and arable land shortages. MPOB has identified genetic engineering as a promising strategy that could be utilised to face the above challenges (Parveex,1998). As shown in other crops, palm oil carotene composition can also … Read more

The MPOB Breeding Information System (MPOB-BIS) was developed for efficient handling of data for oil palm breeding (Figure 1). The integration and sharing of data from various sites are facilitated and made more systematic. MPOB-BIS comprises data entry, record checking, data analysis and data storage. Reports are produced intabular form together with statistical outputs. MPOB-BIS … Read more

MPOB motorised vessel (5-10 litres capacity) for multiplication of oil plam tissue cultures has been develop (Tarmizi et al., 2009) and is being used routinely. It is an economical and practical method for culturing cell aggregates in larger working volumes of liquid media for increased production. However, there is still a need for the vessel to … Read more