Sime Darby Bhd’s announcement that it had completed the sequencing of the oil palm genome took many people by surprise because before that, there had been no indication of the conglomerate’s interest in genomics.
According to the company, research into oil palm genome began in 2003 after it recruited biotechnologist and restructured Sime Darby Technology Centre Sdn Bhd (STDC) for biotechnology research.
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