KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia and ST. LOUIS, June 30, 2014 PRNewswire -- A multinational team of scientists from the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) and Orion Genomics today announced the publication of a paper in the journal Nature Communications identifying a gene, called VIR, that is responsible for tur...

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and St. Louis, MO - June 30, 2014 - A genetic discovery by a team of scientists from the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB), aided by scientists from Orion Genomics, paves the way for increased production of palm oil, which accounts for 45 percent of the world's edible oil, while...

Bagi memastikan kejayaan industri sawit di negara initerus mampan, kerajaan bertindak menjadikan sektor minyak sawit sebagai salah satu daripada 12 Bidang Ekonomi Utama Negara (NKEA) dibawah Program Transformasi Ekonomi Malaysia. Timbalan Perdana Menteri, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin berkata, sebagai sa...

KUALA LUMPUR: MALAYSIAN Palm Oil Board (MPOB) plans to leverage on green and gene technologies to achieve increased profit, environmental stewardship and social responsibility. "The application of gene technologies in the study of oil palm breeding materials will lead to the identification of genes...