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Medium scale pilot plant facilities for production of palm-based polyols with a total capacity of 150 litres is now available in MPOB. Polyols for polyurethane industry could be produced from a wide range of palm-based feedstock of different iodine values using this system. The iodine value of a feedstock tells us the ratio of reactants … Read more

When micropropagation technology was first introduced and found to be viable for the oil palm industry, its adoption was quick with full of enthusiasm. The expectation of dramatically boosting oil yield productivity by 20% – 30% was enough to incentivise the industry to intensify their efforts amidst the current pressure of limited land bank and … Read more

Water is one of the most important natural resources. In many regions, human well-being and ecosystem health are being seriously affected by changes in the global water cycle, caused largely by human activities. Today water scarcity is a serious issue facing our planet right along-side with climate change. Market barriers trends also have lately been … Read more

With the advancement of next generation sequencing technologies, large numbers of sequenced genomes had been generated for many large-scale sequencing projects. Accurate prediction of genes from these genomes is one of the most important steps in the genome annotation process. Many software tools and pipelines developed by various computing techniques are available for gene prediction, … Read more

PalmXplore is an integrated database system that provides comprehensive tools to search, retrieve and browse the predicted African oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) gene information and its associated functional annotations (Figure 1). The oil palm gene models were predicted using a combination of gene prediction pipelines including FGENESH++ (Solovyev et al., 2006) from Softberry and Seqping … Read more

The ability of fat crystals to bind and hold a certain amount of liquid oil within their crystal matrix is dependent on triacylglycerol composition (Chawla and deMan, 1990; Taylor, 1976), thermal properties (deMan et al., 1995), and interaction of the fat crystals in the developed crystal network (Johansson and Bergenstayhl, 1995) of the fat blends. … Read more

Quantification of polar compounds is recognised as one of the most reliable and objective methods to evaluate the quality of vegetable oils. It is widely used as an indicator to determine the thermal stability and safety of the oils as a result of heating and frying. The analysis provides more robust measurement of oil deterioration … Read more

This test method describes a quantitative method of analysis for determination of paraquat residue in oil matrix by High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) and UV detection. Main Researcher: Norizah HalimEmail: norizah@mpob.gov.my

Each chemical substance has its own melting point. A deviation in melting point of a substance indicates a presence of other components in the substance. Melting point determination through this invention (DSC) method provides information on the number of components present in the mixture through thermal properties resolution (thermogram). Main Researcher: Fadzlina AbdullahEmail: fadzlina@mpob.gov.my

In contrast to genetic markers, metabolite based biomarkers are relatively new in plant breeding. This is very different from the situation in the medicinal field, where clinical biochemistry has long been the basis for developing metabolite based biomarkers. Application in plant sciences has lagged behind, due to the slow application of related technologies that can … Read more