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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

Proteomics is the systematic identification and characterisation of proteins, their structures and functions. The Proteomics and Metabolomics (PROMET) at the Advanced Biotechnology and Breeding Centre (ABBC) of the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) has extensive experience in the analyses of protein using mass spectrometry. The facility provides support, equipment and expertise for analysing complex protein … Read more

Toxicology assessment of chemicals are crucial in ensuring the safety of these chemical ingredients in consumer finished products. Human eyes are very sensitive when exposed to foreign particulates and the potential to cause eye irritancy is one of the very first and important subject in irritancy test. Main Researcher: Nor ZulianaEmail: zuliana@mpob.gov.my

The technology involved a method to detect low levels of dimethyl sulfate in methyl ester sulfonate using a gas chromatographic-mass spectrometer method. Main Researcher: Bonnie Tay Yen PingEmail: bonnie@mpob.gov.my

The Caco-2 cell monolayer model can be conveniently used for the purpose of absorption screening (Zhou et al., 2012), particularly as an in vitro model of the intestinal barrier. This monolayer has been extensively used to determine the transport kinetics and metabolism of dietary compounds in vitro. As such, the Caco-2 monolayer is a useful … Read more

Geospatial technology which integrates remote sensing, geographical information system (GIS) and geolocation has been used for various application for oil palm plantation management. The technology improves the process of data acquisition, plantation mapping, soil profiling, database development, planning and decision making. Interdisciplinary data and information from agronomic data, breeding, smallholding, pest and diseases, crop physiology … Read more

Over the years, MPOB has identified many microbes that play essential role in the oil palm ecosystem. These microbes namely bacteria, fungi, virus and viroids play pertinent roles in the research field of plant pathology, entomopathology and biodiversity in oil palm. With so much of information available on these microbes, it important to centralise and … Read more

MPOB offers analytical services for the quantification of natrium, magnesium, aluminium, sulphur, potassium, calcium, nickel and antimony in crude palm oil sample. The minimum amount of crude palm oil sample required is 20 g. Main Researcher: Abdul Niefaizal Abdul HammidEmail: niefaizal@mpob.gov.my

This service offers a determination of bio-based content of palm-based polyols using radiocarbon technique. The amount of the biomass content in a product is defined as the bio based content (American Society for Testing and Materials, 2008). Bio-based polyols, such as palm based and soybean-based polyols, have been significantly incorporated into polyurethane foam formulation (Ain … Read more

OPSRI is a web-based pipeline system that is integrated with several useful tools, namely MISA (Thiel et al., 2003), Primer3 (Rozen et al., 2000) and BLAST (Altschul et al., 1997) for SSR, primer design and annotation. Three modules (Analysis, Database and Query) are provided in a graphical user interface to facilitate tasks and assist in … Read more