Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB)
The issue of food safety is a major concern in the oil palm industry. Consumers today are more knowledgeable and aware of the paramount importance of food safety with regard to food intake. Their demand for safe food is to ensure their food is free from any contamination and is healthy to consume. Palm oil […]
Ganoderma boninense has been identified as a ‘white rot’ pathogen that causes basal stem rot (BSR) disease in oil palm. In spite of numerous reports on the severity of BSR and its effect on the oil palm industry, no single treatment has effectively tackled the problem. Most control measures have to date continued to give […]
Screening for natural haploids by flow cytometry and chromosome counts on 518 culled tissue culture plantlets and 13 twin germinated seeds yielded no haploids. In anther culture experiments, anthers bearing pollen mother cells (PMC) at the uninucleate and tetrad stages were collected and stored at 4oC for one, two, four, six, eight, 10 and 12 […]