(MPOB Transfer of Technology)
Palm-tocotrienols are widely recognised as high value nutraceuticals with enormous nutritional benefits. In addition to its role as a family of vitamin E, tocotrienols are also reported to exhibit distinctive functions such as lipid lowering and anti-ageing. While formulation of hydrophobic substances has always been a challenge in the pharmaceutical industry, nanotechnology provides an alternative … Read more
Cookies are flat-baked treats and are an important source of nutrients and energy. Cookies can provide ideal matrix by which functionality and health attributes by the use of functional ingredients can be transferred to the consumer in economically and practically feasible way (Pinto et al., 2014). Functional cookies are similar in appearance to conventional cookies, … Read more
The technology highlights the potential of oleochemical derivatives Palm 16B MetPro as corrosion inhibitor. We convert palm fatty acid into new fatty nitrogen compound. In general, corrosion inhibitor is used to control or reduce corrosion rate of metals. Corrosion inhibitors are widely used in industrial processes such as acid pickling, cooling system, acid descaling and … Read more
Increasing environmental and climate change awareness have shifted the market trend from petroleum-based materials to more biodegradable and renewable chemicals. Stringent regulations by government have accelerated the adoption of bio-based lubricants (Sharma and Biresaw, 2016). Main Researcher: Dr. Noor Armylisa’sEmail: noor.armylisas@mpob.gov.my
The demand of activated carbon is increasing every year for many industrial applications such as water purification media, pollutant-gas adsorbent and catalyst support. Recently, many researches are focusing on the production of activated carbon from renewable resources and one of it is the palm kernel shell (PKS). One of the important application of PKS activated … Read more
Rapid composting of accumulated empty fruit bunch (EFB) at palm oil mills is crucial to make composting viable and effective. Many technologies have been developed for rapid composting, but the main challenge is the economic feasibility, mainly caused by the cost of the effective microbes. Therefore, the developed formulation of microbial consortia was isolated with … Read more
Small land holding is one of the factors limiting the independent oil palm growers to increase the production of fresh fruit bunches and income. Therefore, a good land use strategy is needed to fully utilise the farm to ensure it remain sustainable in the future. Intensive integration of dairy goat is a value farming through … Read more
The Malaysian oil palm industry recorded an average oil yield of 3.53 t ha-1 yr-1 in 2017 (MPOB, 2018). It was postulated that the oil palm has the genetic potential of attaining oil yield of up to 18.5 t ha-1 yr-1 (Corley, 1998). To narrow the yield gap, genetic gain through breeding and vegetative propagation … Read more
The oil palm tissue culture (OPTC) process involves many stages that generate enormous amount of information starting from sampling of ortets, culturing of explants, calli, embryoids, polyembryoids, shoots, transplanted ramets and planting in fields. Every OPTC laboratory has its own way of collecting data, from the conventional manual entry into forms, spreadsheets and/or databases etc. … Read more
Marker assisted selection (MAS), is now seen as a viable option in oil palm breeding programmes. Increase in the number of trained staff, availability of appropriate genomics tools and infrastructure in many commercial plantation companies have provided the incentive to implement MAS. The most basic application of markers in oil palm breeding is probably testing … Read more