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Oil Palm (Elaeis spp.) Breeding in Malaysia

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The planted area of oil palm has grown to over 5.81 million ha by 2017, uplifting the economy and livelihood of Malaysians over the last 100 years since its beginning as a plantation crop in 1917. The narrowness of the active gene pool was recognized as one of the major drawbacks to a successful and rapid selection progress in oil palm breeding. The industry has made significant strides by incorporating germplasm material sourced from its center of origin in Africa and South America into on-going breeding programs. This resulted in the development of 13 new types of genetic material (PS series) by the Malaysian Palm Oil Board that have been distributed to the industry. An active tissue culture program has also facilitated cloning of high yielding palms, where clonal uniformity offers the opportunity to increase yields of up to 30%. Research and development efforts to further improve the productivity of oil palm received a boost when its genome was sequenced and released in 2013, which laid the foundation for applying genome-based technologies in oil palm research. With the discovery of a few genes at the molecular level together with oil palm genome, sequence data, we expect further integration of conventional and molecular breeding. Biotechnology research is the core area to opening up new avenues for oil palm improvement toward an era of precision agriculture and sustainability.

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1.1 Appendix: I Research Institutes Relevant to Oil Palm Genetic Improvement

Institution

Specialization and research activities

Contact information and website

Malaysian Palm Oil Board

Genetically modified oil palm/gene function and transgenic technology

Dr. Abdul Masani Mat Yunus

Malaysian Palm Oil Board

No. 6, Persiaran Institusi

Bandar Baru Bangi

43000 Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia

Telephone: (6)0387693895

E-mail: masani@mpob.gov.my

Malaysian Palm Oil Board

Improvement and generation of elite oil palm planting materials/breeding and quantitative genetics

Dr. Mohd Din Amiruddin

Malaysian Palm Oil Board

No. 6, Persiaran Institusi

Bandar Baru Bangi

43000 Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia

Telephone: (6)0387694482

E-mail: mohddin@mpob.gov.my

CIRAD Agricultural Research for Development

Genomic selection in oil palm

Dr. David Cross

CETIC (African Center of Excellence in Information and Communication Technologies), University of Yaoundé 1, Yaoundé, Cameroon

E-mail: david.cros@cirad.fr

PalmElit SAS

Plant breeding in oil palm

Dr. Tristan Durand-Gasselin

PalmElit SAS

Parc Agropolis Bat. 14

2214 Boulevard de la Lironde

34980 Montferrier sur Lez France

Telephone: (33) 467457927

Fax: (33) 607301953

Email: tristan.durand-gasselin@palmelit.com

1.2 Appendix II: Oil Palm Genetic Resources in Malaysia

Cultivar

Species

Important traits

PS1

Elaeis guineensis

Dwarf

PS2

E. guineensis

High iodine value

PS3

E. guineensis

High kernel

PS4

E. oleifera

High carotene content

PS5

E. guineensis

Thin shell teneras

PS6

E. guineensis

Large fruit duras

PS7

E. guineensis

High bunch index

PS8

E. guineensis

High vitamin E

PS10

E. guineensis

Long stalk

PS11

E. guineensis

High carotene

PS12

E. guineensis

High oleic acid

PS13

E. guineensis

Low lipase

PS14

E. guineensis

High protein kernel

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Ahmad Malike, F. et al. (2019). Oil Palm (Elaeis spp.) Breeding in Malaysia. In: Al-Khayri, J., Jain, S., Johnson, D. (eds) Advances in Plant Breeding Strategies: Industrial and Food Crops. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23265-8_13

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