Oil palm natural diversity and the potential for yield improvement

Improving barley culm robustness for secured crop yield in a changing climate

(2015) Christoph Dockter et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Molecular defense response of oil palm to Ganoderma infection

(2015) C.-L. Ho et al.   PHYTOCHEMISTRY

A consensus linkage map of oil palm and a major QTL for stem height

(2015) May Lee et al.   Scientific Reports

Palm oil and blood lipid–related markers of cardiovascular disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis of dietary intervention trials

(2014) Elena Fattore et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

Dietary fats and cardiovascular disease: Putting together the pieces of a complicated puzzle

(2014) George Michas et al.   ATHEROSCLEROSIS

Status and prospects of oil palm in the Brazilian Amazon

(2014) Alberto A. Villela et al.   BIOMASS & BIOENERGY

High density SNP and SSR-based genetic maps of two independent oil palm hybrids

(2014) Ngoot-Chin Ting et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Exploiting transcriptome data for the development and characterization of gene-based SSR markers related to cold tolerance in oil palm (Elaeis guineensis)

(2014) Yong Xiao et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

Will Oil Palm’s Homecoming Spell Doom for Africa’s Great Apes?

(2014) Serge A. Wich et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Management of basidiomycete root- and stem-rot diseases in oil palm, rubber and tropical hardwood plantation crops

(2014) C. L. Mohammed et al.   FOREST PATHOLOGY

Genetic diversity of the world’s largest oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) field genebank accessions using microsatellite markers

(2014) C. Bakoumé et al.   GENETIC RESOURCES AND CROP EVOLUTION

Hybrid recreation by reverse breeding in Arabidopsis thaliana

(2014) Erik Wijnker et al.   Nature Protocols

Closing yield gaps: perils and possibilities for biodiversity conservation

(2014) B. Phalan et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor Trichostatin A Promotes Totipotency in the Male Gametophyte

(2014) H. Li et al.   PLANT CELL

Analyses of Hypomethylated Oil Palm Gene Space

(2014) Eng-Ti L. Low et al.   PLoS One

Genetic Architecture of Palm Oil Fatty Acid Composition in Cultivated Oil Palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) Compared to Its Wild Relative E. oleifera (H.B.K) Cortés

(2014) Carmenza Montoya et al.   PLoS One

Efficient Transformation of Oil Palm Protoplasts by PEG-Mediated Transfection and DNA Microinjection

(2014) Mat Yunus Abdul Masani et al.   PLoS One

RNA-Seq Analysis of Oil Palm under Cold Stress Reveals a Different C-Repeat Binding Factor (CBF) Mediated Gene Expression Pattern in Elaeis guineensis Compared to Other Species

(2014) Xintao Lei et al.   PLoS One

Actor-specific contributions to the deforestation slowdown in the Brazilian Amazon

(2014) J. Godar et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Agricultural expansion and its impacts on tropical nature

(2014) William F. Laurance et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The oil palm VIRESCENS gene controls fruit colour and encodes a R2R3-MYB

(2014) Rajinder Singh et al.   Nature Communications

Consequences of tropical land use for multitrophic biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

(2014) Andrew D. Barnes et al.   Nature Communications

Combining high-throughput phenotyping and genome-wide association studies to reveal natural genetic variation in rice

(2014) Wanneng Yang et al.   Nature Communications

Will Yield Improvements on the Forest Frontier Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions? A Global Analysis of Oil Palm

(2013) N. B. Villoria et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS

How will climate change affect oil palm fungal diseases?

(2013) R.R.M. Paterson et al.   CROP PROTECTION

Moving from Efficacy to Effectiveness: Red Palm Oil's Role in Preventing Vitamin A Deficiency

(2013) Amy L Rice et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF NUTRITION

Oil palm genome sequence reveals divergence of interfertile species in Old and New worlds

(2013) Rajinder Singh et al.   NATURE

The oil palm SHELL gene controls oil yield and encodes a homologue of SEEDSTICK

(2013) Rajinder Singh et al.   NATURE

Targeted genome modification of crop plants using a CRISPR-Cas system

(2013) Qiwei Shan et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Genomic and epigenetic insights into the molecular bases of heterosis

(2013) Z. Jeffrey Chen   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Comparative Transcriptome Analysis of Three Oil Palm Fruit and Seed Tissues That Differ in Oil Content and Fatty Acid Composition

(2013) S. Dussert et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Crop Expansion and Conservation Priorities in Tropical Countries

(2013) Ben Phalan et al.   PLoS One

Identification of QTLs Associated with Callogenesis and Embryogenesis in Oil Palm Using Genetic Linkage Maps Improved with SSR Markers

(2013) Ngoot-Chin Ting et al.   PLoS One

WRINKLED1, A Ubiquitous Regulator in Oil Accumulating Tissues from Arabidopsis Embryos to Oil Palm Mesocarp

(2013) Wei Ma et al.   PLoS One

Arabidopsis semidwarfs evolved from independent mutations in GA20ox1, ortholog to green revolution dwarf alleles in rice and barley

(2013) L. Barboza et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Quantitative trait loci (QTLs) analysis of palm oil fatty acid composition in an interspecific pseudo-backcross from Elaeis oleifera (H.B.K.) Cortés and oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.)

(2013) Carmenza Montoya et al.   Tree Genetics & Genomes

Improving palm oil quality through identification and mapping of the lipase gene causing oil deterioration

(2013) F. Morcillo et al.   Nature Communications

Using plant growth modeling to analyze C source–sink relations under drought: inter- and intraspecific comparison

(2013) Benoît Pallas et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Temporal and spatial expression of polygalacturonase gene family members reveals divergent regulation during fleshy fruit ripening and abscission in the monocot species oil palm

(2012) Peerapat Roongsattham et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

Evaluating Global Barriers to the Use of Red Palm Oil as an Intervention Food to Prevent Vitamin A Deficiency

(2012) Betty J. Burri   COMPREHENSIVE REVIEWS IN FOOD SCIENCE AND FOOD SAFETY

Ecophysiological traits of the macaw palm: A contribution towards the domestication of a novel oil crop

(2012) Thiago Pereira Pires et al.   INDUSTRIAL CROPS AND PRODUCTS

Lipase activity, mesocarp oil content, and iodine value in oil palm fruits ofElaeis guineensis,Elaeis oleifera, and the interspecific hybrid O×G (E. oleifera×E. guineensis)

(2012) Tatiana Cadena et al.   JOURNAL OF THE SCIENCE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE

Reverse breeding in Arabidopsis thaliana generates homozygous parental lines from a heterozygous plant

(2012) Erik Wijnker et al.   NATURE GENETICS

TALENs: a widely applicable technology for targeted genome editing

(2012) J. Keith Joung et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Tocotrienol research: past into present

(2012) Rebecca SY Wong et al.   NUTRITION REVIEWS

Green Revolution Trees: Semidwarfism Transgenes Modify Gibberellins, Promote Root Growth, Enhance Morphological Diversity, and Reduce Competitiveness in Hybrid Poplar

(2012) A. A. Elias et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Ion-beam irradiation, gene identification, and marker-assisted breeding in the development of low-cadmium rice

(2012) S. Ishikawa et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Committed carbon emissions, deforestation, and community land conversion from oil palm plantation expansion in West Kalimantan, Indonesia

(2012) K. M. Carlson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Oil palm expansion transforms tropical landscapes and livelihoods

(2012) Jeffrey Sayer et al.   Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment

Environmental regulation of sex determination in oil palm: current knowledge and insights from other species

(2011) Hélène Adam et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

High-yield oil palm expansion spares land at the expense of forests in the Peruvian Amazon

(2011) Víctor H Gutiérrez-Vélez et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Increased glutamine in leaves of poplar transgenic with pine GS1a caused greater anthranilate synthetase  -subunit (ASA1) transcript and protein abundances: an auxin-related mechanism for enhanced growth in GS transgenics?

(2011) H. Man et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Efficient sweet pepper transformation mediated by the BABY BOOM transcription factor

(2011) Iris Heidmann et al.   PLANT CELL REPORTS

Regulatory Mechanisms Underlying Oil Palm Fruit Mesocarp Maturation, Ripening, and Functional Specialization in Lipid and Carotenoid Metabolism

(2011) T. J. Tranbarger et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Comparative transcriptome and metabolite analysis of oil palm and date palm mesocarp that differ dramatically in carbon partitioning

(2011) F. Bourgis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Reconciling Food Production and Biodiversity Conservation: Land Sharing and Land Sparing Compared

(2011) B. Phalan et al.   SCIENCE

Resource use efficiency and environmental performance of nine major biofuel crops, processed by first-generation conversion techniques

(2010) Sander C. de Vries et al.   BIOMASS & BIOENERGY

Production of haploids and doubled haploids in oil palm

(2010) Jim M Dunwell et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

QTL detection by multi-parent linkage mapping in oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.)

(2010) N. Billotte et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS

Why do Farmers Prefer Oil Palm? Lessons Learnt from Bungo District, Indonesia

(2010) Laurène Feintrenie et al.   Small-Scale Forestry

Mapping quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for fatty acid composition in an interspecific cross of oil palm

(2009) Rajinder Singh et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

Reverse breeding: a novel breeding approach based on engineered meiosis

(2009) Rob Dirks et al.   PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL

Basal stem rot of oil palm (Elaeis guineensis); mode of root infection and lower stem invasion byGanoderma boninense

(2009) R. W. Rees et al.   PLANT PATHOLOGY

Geographic and genetic structure of African oil palm diversity suggests new approaches to breeding

(2009) Benoît Cochard et al.   Tree Genetics & Genomes

Role of transitory carbon reserves during adjustment to climate variability and source-sink imbalances in oil palm (Elaeis guineensis)

(2009) S. Legros et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

How much palm oil do we need?

(2008) R.H.V. Corley   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY

Identification of oil palm breeding lines producing oils with low acid values

(2008) Georges Frank Ngando Ebongue et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF LIPID SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Plant triacylglycerols as feedstocks for the production of biofuels

(2008) Timothy P. Durrett et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Genomewide selection in oil palm: increasing selection gain per unit time and cost with small populations

(2008) C. K. Wong et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS

How will oil palm expansion affect biodiversity?

(2008) E FITZHERBERT et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION