• improving palm oil quality through identification-semantic scholar
  • improving palm oil quality through identification-semantic scholar
  • improving palm oil quality through identification-semantic scholar
  • improving palm oil quality through identification-semantic scholar
  • Why is oil palm research important?
  • The major focus in oil palm research are factors for high oil yield, modifying the fatty acid biosynthesis process for tailored oil composition and confronting the Ganoderma disease.
  • Does oil palm fruit mesocarp increase free fatty acids?
  • The oil palm fruit mesocarp contains high lipase activity that increases free fatty acids and necessitates post-harvest inactivation by heat treatment of fruit bunches. Even before heat treatment the mesocarp lipase activity causes consequential oil losses and requires costly measures to limit free fatty acids quantities.
  • What is oil palm mesocarp?
  • Provided by the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative The oil palm fruit mesocarp contains high lipase activity that increases free fatty acids and necessitates post-harvest inactivation by heat treatment of fruit bunches.
  • How to increase the yield and productivity of oil palm?
  • There is a continuous effort to increase the yield and productivity of the oil palm through conventional breeding and by cloning super planting materials. Hitherto, oil palm breeders had limited choice of tools to evaluate the important traits of the palm such as resistance to diseases which has constrained the breeding programme.
  • Is palm oil a sustainable oleochemical feedstock?
  • Palm oil is one of the major sources of edible oils and oleochemical feedstocks. Sustainable oil palm cultivation which is set to boost production requires effective and innovative strategies. There is a continuous effort to increase the yield and productivity of the oil palm through conventional breeding and by cloning super planting materials.
  • Can post-genomics help improve oil palm ripening and fatty acid synthesis?
  • Post-genomics tools such as transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics are well-established technologies and have been used as phenotyping tools to elucidate the mechanisms involved in fruit ripening and fatty acid synthesis, all of which promise to facilitate and speed up the pace of oil palm improvement.