PETALING JAYA: Sime Darby Bhd’s major breakthrough to completely sequence, assemble and annotate the oil palm genome with 93.8% completeness will be a tough act to follow by the palm oil custodian, the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) and other plantation companies.
Industry consultant M.R. Chandran told StarBiz that MPOB, which pursued similar technology for more than five years, was believed to have achieved about 85% completeness in deciphering oil palm genetics or scientifically known as “sequencing, assembling and annotating the oil palm genome.”