Research and Development Projects: Biotechnology – BTL/DF04-06

Code :	BTL/DF04-06
Title :	Expression profiling of genes related to early embryogenesis.
Objectives :	To develop methodologies for early selection of embryogenesis potential palm/callus

Research and Development Projects: Biotechnology – BTL/DF03-06

Code :	BTL/DF03-06
Title :	Detection of aberrant oil palms with mantled fruits
Objectives :	1) To develop biomarkers for the detection of abnormalities in tissue culture ramets
	2) To establish an early clonal conformity testing procedure for quality control

Code :	BTL/DF02-06
Title :	DNA fingerprinting of genetic contaminants
Objectives :	To establish a molecular method for DNA screening of genetic contaminants

Code :	BTL/DF01-06
Title :	Genotyping of AAR’s planting materials
Objectives :	1) To conduct phylogenetic studies on AAR’s planting materials so that future planting materials can be authenticated
	2) To analyse the genetic distance of AAR’s oil palm genetic pool that may assist selection of parent oil palms for breeding and hybrid seed production

Code :	BTL/DB02-06
Title :	DNA sample banking
Objectives :	Long-term storage, archival and easy retrieval of DNA samples for DNA fingerprinting

Code :	BTL/DB01-06
Title :	Leaf sample banking
Objectives :	Long-term storage of leaf tissues for DNA isolation and fingerprinting in the future, even when the palms no longer exist in the field

Decision making in a plant breeding programme

Development of an oil palm system model

Spatial modeling of oil palm growth and yield performances and applications of remote sensing, GIS and GPS technology in plantation management.

Intranet and multimedia system for plantation(office) management

Dynamic and optimised economic model of oil palm plantation

Code :	OPEM2/94
Title :	Dynamic and optimised economic model of oil palm plantation
Objectives :	To develop a dynamic and optimised economic model of oil palm which is capable of allocating the resources for sustainability of estates.

Code :	CM8/97
Title :	Intranet and multimedia system for plantation(office) management
Objectives :	1) To develop a comprehensive intranet/internet webpages with multimedia facilities.
	2) To ensure the direct communication between the users and the server, ie data can be posted and users can query the database on real time basic.
	3) To develop a firewall.

Code :	CM3&6/97
Title :	Spatial modeling of oil palm growth and yield performances and applications of remote sensing, GIS and GPS technology in plantation management.
Objectives :	1) To investigate the spatial variation of oil palm growth and yield using geostatistical method.
	2) To produce yield and growth maps of oil palm for precision agriculture.
	3) To develop methods to analyse and interpret remote sensing images for plantation management. 4) To explore the use of neural network for pattern recognition in remote sensing images.