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The palm biodiesel technology has been develop in MPOB since 1980s. In recent years, biodiesel has gained a significant role as a blending component for diesel fuel. Various countries including Malaysia have implemented the blending of biodiesel into diesel fuel in various ratios. Malaysia has implemented the B5 (blend of 5% biodiesel with 95% diesel … Read more

For oil palm calli and suspension cultures, genetic variation analysis, estimation of ganome size and observation of nuclei activity is not possible via flow cytometry due to the low population of nuclei present. Hence, image cytometry or ICM method was developed to address this issue. The approach is to quantitate the chromogenic areas of the … Read more

The Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) region is the most widely sequenced DNA region in fungi by PRC analysis. The sequence comparison of the fungi ITS region is widely used in taxonomy and molecular phylogeny due to the high copy number of rRNA genes. Furthermore, it is easy to amplify even from small quantities of DNA … Read more

MPOB Microbial Identification System 1 (MIDS 1) utilises the Biolog which is a microbial identidication tool based on biochemical analyses. Biolog was developed in 1989 by Biolog, Inc. and well-known for its ability to identify and characteriste microorganisms. It is an identification system for bacterial, yeast and fungi using a microplate that analyse a microorganism … Read more

The study was conducted on 20 years old palms planted on coastal soil in Sepang, Selangor. One hundred and twenty infected palms were identify for this study. The palms were selected based on the presence of Ganoderma fructification at the based on the presence of Ganoderma fructification at the base with the palms still producing … Read more

The Ganoderma, the cause of basal stem rot (BSR) disease, is facultative basidiomycete fungus and a mahor pathogen of oil palm in Malaysia. One stratergy to manage BSR is by reducing chemical to infected stumps. Fu,ogation is one means of reducing inoculum f some root rotting fungi. Soil fumigants such as methylisothiocyanate (MITC), methyl bromide, … Read more

Palm vitamin E is a tocotrienol-rich product. In cosmetic applications and in the treatment of cutaneous diseases, vitamin E helps to reduce the amount of water lost from the skin’s surface, and to reduce the formation of free radicals following skin exposes to ultra violet A (UV) rays and to other skin stress. Main Research: … Read more

Method 1: CaF2 Cell Beer’s Law The sample which has been diluted with cylohexane is introduce into CaF2 cell and the mid infrared absorption spectrum is recorded. The absorbption spectrum is recorded. The absorbance of the typical absorption band for esters at about 1745 cm-1 is measured. The biodiesel content is then calculated with a … Read more

This test method describes a procedure using a gas chramotographic mass selective detector (GC-MSD) for the determination of 3-monochlioropropane-1,2-diol (3-M CPD) esters in an oil matrix. The 3-monochlioropropane-1,2-diol (3-M CPD) is one of the food-processing contaiminants under the chloropropanols group. Zelinkova et al. (2006) showed that the formation of 3-MCPD esters in oils is linked to … Read more

Water solubility, also known as aqueous solubility, is the maximum amount of a substance that can dissolve in water at equilibrium, at a given temperature and pressure. This parameter is used in many environmental studies to help determine the fate of chemicals in the environment. Water solubility has been correlated to the partition coefficient, another … Read more