TT No. 675: RED PALM-BASED EXTRUDED SNACK

The red palm-based extruded snack, combined with natural nutrient (i.e. carotenes) is a new concept for snack food with high commercial potential in the Chinese market. The product can be sold as niche product with better overall acceptance compared to the commercial extruded snacks. In addition, its processing is simple and operational friendly (without major … Read more

TT No. 674: PALM-BASED LIQUID CHOCOLATE FILLING FOR CONTEMPORARY MOONCAKES

Technologies offered are the formulation of liquid chocolate filling fat, the method for production and baking of the mooncake, which includes methods to avoid fat migration. The chocolate filling fat remains in liquid state at room temperature during and even after the baking of mooncakes. Main Researcher: Niu YuetingEmail: jhyoong@mpob.gov.my

TT No. 672: HYBRID POWER HERBICIDE SPRAYING VEHICLE

The invention is a lightweight threewheeled utility farm vehicle equipped with a hybrid power electric sprayer system. The hybridisation lies on the two sources of energy connected in parallel either to charge a battery or to power the sprayer. The machine could carry up to 200 litres of water-chemical mixing at a time and able … Read more

TT No. 671: CLONAL PALM SERIES 3 (CPS3)

CPS3 originated from amongst DxPs planted at MPOB Research Station Hulu Paka, Terengganu. The outstanding yield performance of a particular individual with fresh fruit bunches (FFB) of 198.80 kg palm-1 yr-1 and oil to bunch (O/B) of 35.22% led to the cloning of this ortet in 2001. Main Researcher: Siti Rahmah Abdul RahmanEmail: sitirahmah.ar@mpob.gov.my

TT No. 669: TISSUE CULTURE SYSTEM FOR THE ARTIFICIAL PATHOGENICITY OF Ganoderma boninense

The developed in vitro tissue culture pathogenicity technique is the first to establish the natural manifestation of Ganoderma infection without any wounding or any form of pressure to recreate Ganoderma infection that were demonstrated earlier by two publications (Govender and Wong, 2017; Goh et al., 2016). Main Researcher: Shamala SundramEmail: shamala@mpob.gov.my

TS No. 191: OIL PALM METABOLOME DATABASE

OPMDB provides the oil palm industry and academia with the primary and updated comprehensive registry of oil palm metabolite description, analysis spectra and structural information from multi-analysis metabolomics platforms. Main Researcher: Nur ‘Ain IshakEmail: nurain@mpob.gov.my