Hexaconazole is a systemic fungicide widely used to control fungal pathogen in a variety of crops. In Malaysia, hexaconazole is used to inhibit the spread of Ganoderma infection from infected oil palm (Idris et al., 2004). Ganoderma can cause the disease basal stem rot (BSR) in oil palm and the spreading of the infection, if not prevented, will destroy to oil palm. It is important to measure the level of hexaconazole in crude palm oil because of its toxic effect s on human. The research began with the development of a method to determine the level of hexaconazole in samples of oil.

Main Research: Abdul Niefaizal Abdul Hammid