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This is a practical guide to seed germination in oil palm for both breeding and genetic studies as well as commercial seed production. Oil palm is the top oil crop in the world and this manual provides step-by-step illustrated methods, written by practitioners actively engaged in oil palm seed production and breeding.

Oil palm is the top oil crop and the only major crop and only oil crop not to have been improved by plant mutation breeding. This manual is hands-on, providing step-by-step illustrated methods in a range of key activities in mutation induction, mutation detection and mutant line development in oil palm.

This is a hands-on, practical guide covering seedling screening for disease response in oil palm for pathology, breeding and genetics. Oil palm is the top oil crop in the world and Ganoderma is the most devastating disease of oil palm.

This is a hand-on practical guide to the use of Trichoderma as a biocontrol for Ganoderma disease in oil palm plantations. The manual provides background information on the benefits of Trichoderma fungi as well as on Ganoderma (Basal Stem Rot), the most devastating disease of oil palm in South East Asia.

This is a practical guide which describes physical bunch and oil analysis of oil palm bunches. Oil palm is the world's top oil crop and bunch and oil analysis laboratories are set up at oil mills to assess production, yield potential of plantations and oil extraction rates relative to targets.

This is a hands-on, practical guide to describe field trials in oil palm. The location for field trials is key, as is land preparation.

Oil palm is the world's most important oil crop. Crossing is essential in commercial seed production, breeding and genetic studies. This book, written by experts, illustrates crossing techniques to maximise success and safeguard purity, enabling the production of high quality seeds to grow-on as planting material and in breeding superior cultivars.

This is a practical guide which general and specific practices in oil palm nurseries to produce healthy, vigorous and uniform plants ready for field planting. Oil palm is the world's top oil crop.