Mission
Strategic Research Areas
- Isolation of constitutive and tissue-specific promoters
- Isolation of key genes involved in oil synthesis and carotenoids pathway
- Testing oil palm promoters and genes using model plants
- Molecular approaches towards solving major disease and yield problems
- Development of routine and improved transformation system
- Improving oil quality and novel products using transgenic technology
To identify, isolate and characterise genes and promoters towards production of oil palm with improved traits and novel high value products. DR. NURNIWALIS ABDUL WAHAB MDM. WAN NUR SYUHADA WAN SULAIMAN MDM. ZATTY SYAMIMI @ ADURA MAT SAID MDM. SHARIZA-HANIN ZAINAL ABIDIN To provide the oil palm industry with innovations for the production of genetically engineered oil palm with improved oil quality and novel high-value products through research in genetic transformation and its allied sciences. DR. OMAR ABDUL RASID MDM. SITI MASURA SUBHI MDM. BAHARIAH BINTI BOHARI MDM. NOR HANIN AYUB MR. LIM FOOK HWA MDM. SITI SURIAWATI BADAI MS. NORFAEZAH JAMALUDIN MR. MOHD AL AKMARUL FIZREE MD PIJI MDM. NURFAHISZA ABDUL RAHMANObjective
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Members
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