Malaysia's Oil Palm Company, Sime Darby Technology Centre (SDTC) has become the first oil company to sequence the genome of oil palm. This great success is a collaboration project between STDC and Bio-informatics company, Synamatix Sdn. Bhd.
STDC started this oil palm genome project in 2003, then STDC continued to collaborate with Synamatix Sdn. Bhd in 2005 and finally both companies have successfully sequenced the genome in July 2008.
For the sequencing project, STDC has completely sequenced, assembled and annotated two varieties of the oil palm genomes (which are the Dura and the Tenera) with 30 times coverage as repeated the sequence over 30 times and with 93.8% completeness.
With this great effort by STDC, this will enable the identification of several markers of oil palm genome that might give rise some beneficial characteristic for the crops. Examples are
disease resistant, drought tolerant and salinity tolerant. Moreover, these markers will lead to better production of oil with more nutrient content for the better consumption of consumers. Moreover, these markers will help the company to create an alternative method for the company as to increase the yield of the crop instead of clearing the forest in order to give a way for palm plantation.
With this great breakthrough, Malaysians future biotechnologist in Taylor's University College are driven forward to attain such breakthrough in order to explore the unlimited world of genome.
With this great effort by STDC, this will enable the identification of several markers of oil palm genome that might give rise some beneficial characteristic for the crops. Examples are
disease resistant, drought tolerant and salinity tolerant. Moreover, these markers will lead to better production of oil with more nutrient content for the better consumption of consumers. Moreover, these markers will help the company to create an alternative method for the company as to increase the yield of the crop instead of clearing the forest in order to give a way for palm plantation.With this great breakthrough, Malaysians future biotechnologist in Taylor's University College are driven forward to attain such breakthrough in order to explore the unlimited world of genome.
Source: Sime Darby Makes Important Discovery Im Oil Palm Genome, 12 May 2009
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