Oil palm natural diversity and the potential for yield improvement

Oil palm natural diversity and the potential for yield improvement

African oil palm has the highest productivity amongst cultivated oleaginous crops. Species can constitute a single crop capable to fulfil the growing global demand for vegetable oils, which is estimated to reach 240 million tons by 2050. Two types of vegetable oil are extracted from the palm fruit o...

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Main Authors: Edson eBarcelos, Sara ede Almeida Rios, Raimundo N.V. Cunha, Ricardo eLopes, Sérgio Yoshimitsu Motoike, Elena eBabiychuk, Aleksandra eSkirycz, Sergei eKushnir
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Plant Science
Subjects:
Breeding
Hybrid
germplasm
Oil palm
E.guineensis
E. oleifera
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpls.2015.00190/full

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