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Researchers solve mystery of the mutated oil palms - AAAS
2015-09-09
That vegetable oil in your kitchen cabinet comes at a price. Demand for the oil.used in everything from food to biofuel.is so high that oil palm plants have taken over large swaths of the world.s rainforests...
 Loss of Karma transposon methylation underlies the mantled somaclonal variant of oil palm

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MPOB and Collaborators Solve mystery of clonal abnormality and discover the importance of good Karma in oil palm tissue culture -
2015-09-10
MPOB scientists scored a major breakthrough by unlocking a puzzle that has mystified the oil palm industry for three decades. The successful development of oil palm tissue culture in the 70s heralded a new era for oil palm crop improvement as it allowed for the mass propagation of thousands of unifo...
 Oil palm genome sequence reveals divergence of interfertile species in Old and New worlds
 Loss of Karma transposon methylation underlies the mantled somaclonal variant of oil palm

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Colours of distinction: When oil palm is right for picking - The Star
2014-09-01
THE TERM "Don't judge a book by its cover" will not apply to the case of the VIR gene breakthrough. That's because this VIR (or VIRESCENS) gene determines the outer skin colour of the oil palm fruit as it ripens, which is key to knowing the right time for harvest.Harvesting too early significantly d...
 The oil palm VIRESCENS gene controls fruit colour and encodes a R2R3-MYB

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Can Indiana Jones help sort out the palm oil problem? - scientific American
2014-07-08
"Palm presents a special problem for conservation efforts," Harrison said. "Naturally palm grows in low-laying tropical area, which is most often valuable and protected land. "A market in desperate need of a rescuer Raviga Sambanthamurthi, director of the Malaysian Palm Oil Board's Advanced Biotechn...
 The oil palm VIRESCENS gene controls fruit colour and encodes a R2R3-MYB