African oil palm has the highest productivity amongst cultivated oleaginous crops. Species
can constitute a single crop capable to fulfill the growing global demand for vegetable oils …

Oil palm, a cross-pollinated crop with long generation time, poses a lot of challenges in
achieving sustainable oil palm with high yield and quality. The African oil palm (Elaeis …

Oil palm is the most productive vegetable oil in the world for human consumptions and
industrial applications. Increasing demands of palm oil over the years have led the research …

This study reports on the detection of additional expressed sequence tags (EST) derived
simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers for the oil palm. A large collection of 19243 Elaeis …

Basal stem rot, caused by the basidiomycete fungus, Ganoderma boninense, is an
economically devastating disease in Malaysia. Our study investigated the changes in lignin …

Oil palm is a major economic crop for Malaysia. The major challenges faced by the industry
are labor shortage, availability of arable land and unstable commodity price. This has …

Oil palm is the world's leading source of vegetable oil and fat. Dura, Pisifera and Tenera are
three forms of oil palm. The genome sequence of Pisifera is available whereas the Dura …

As the world's population is projected to reach 10 billion or more by 2100, devastating fossil
fuel shortages loom in the future unless more renewable alternatives to energy are …

J. Russell Smith (1874–1966), a professor of geography at Columbia University, witnessed
the devastation of soil erosion during his extensive travels. He first published his landmark …

Agricultural development in the tropics lags behind development in the temperate latitudes
due to the lack of advanced technology, and various biotic and abiotic factors. To cope with …