Breeding for palm 1 Archive ouverte du Cirad Agritrop
insertion in the supply chain. In the long trend, the promotion of sustainable palm oil is an excellent opportunity for palm oil seed distributors. Key words: Oil palm, Breeding, Disease Resistance, sustainability. 1 Paper presented at the International Seminar on Breeding for Sustainability in Oil Palm, held on 18 November
Cirad, DGD-RS, DRASEI, 12730 Jakarta, Indonesia The sustainable development of oil palm cultivation is generating a series of questions to research, At present, breeding programs aimed at the genetic improvement of the oil palm focus on the generation of
OIL PALM GENETIC IMPROVEMENT AND
Oil palm genetic improvement takes numerous criteria into account, many of which fit in with sustainable agriculture. For example, this crop is subject to pressure from different pests and diseases.
Oil palm genetic improvement has been des-cribed by numerous authors [2-8]. Other aspects more directly linked to the develop-ment of sustainable agriculture appear in this edition [9]. The main oil palm seed multiplication princi-ples have also been described on numerous occasions [10, 11], and we cannot go into
Genetics and variety innovation (GIV) / By team Cirad
The latest articles of the members of the members of the scientific team.
Genetic improvement of the oil palm has been through several major stages. Mass selection was carried out before World War I. Around 1955, heterosis was found in crosses between selections carried
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Planting material as key input for sustainable palm oil Planting material as key input for sustainable palm oil1 J.P.C. Baskett2, Africa, as in Côte d’Ivoire, have remained generally stable at this level for decades as Transfer of the genetic improvement The long term palm oil yield trend, and its apparent stagnation, remains a
UMR AMAP botAnique et Modélisation de l Cirad
The development of new breeding strategies to find more sustainable and productive systems is a major challenge to cope with ceaseless increasing demands for vegetable oils, notably palm oil. Optimizing plant architecture to increase radiation interception efficiency could be an option for enhancing potential oil palm production.
“Geographical Indications (GIs), biodiversity and poor communities” The opportunity of GIs to provide protection of traditional indigenous biodiversity products and benefits to poor agricultural communities: A Desk Study on six target countries: Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, Vietnam, Ethiopia, Mauritania
- Are oil palm growth variables genetic?
- The significant differences in growth variables observed among the progenies tested in our study are probably determined genetically (Nouy et al., 1999; Konan et al., 2014; Corley and Tinker, 2016), i.e. linked with the specific physiological traits of the different genetic origins of the oil palms (Jacquemard et al., 2002).
- Do genetic differences in mineral nutrition affect morphological characteristics of oil palm progenies?
- Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) genetic differences in mineral nutrition: potassium and magnesium effects on morphological characteristics of four oil palm progenies in Nigeria (West Africa). OCL 29: 31. Genetic characteristics, varieties, and genetic origins of the parents of the different oil palm progenies (PIC, 2011).
- What factors hamper palm production and development in Africa (Nigeria)?
- One of the factors that most frequently hampers palm production, development and growth in Africa (Nigeria) is inadequate nutrient uptake (Goh et al., 1999) due to the low fertility of the ferralsols on which oil palm is generally produced in tropical areas.
- Is oil palm a Vege crop?
- Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) is a heterogeneous, perennial crop having long breeding cycle with a genome size of 1.8 Gb. The demand for vege
- Are oil palm progenies adaptable to KCl and kieserite fertilizer?
- We compared four oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) progenies’ morphological growth characteristics to reveal genotypic differences in plant growth and assess their adaptability in Nigeria’s environment in response to different levels of potassium chloride (KCl) and kieserite fertilizer applications.
- Does irrigated climate affect oil palm growth in India?
- In India, during summer temperature goes up to 45–48 °C where oil palm is being cultivated mostly under irrigated conditions It is visually examined that deficit stress minimizes FFB of 5 tons per ha with significant reduction of 26% in vegetative growth (Murugesan et al. 2017).
