Sentences with phrase «palm oil yield»

«The discovery that regulation of the Shell gene will enable breeders to boost palm oil yields by nearly one - third is excellent news for the rainforest and its champions worldwide,» says Datuk Dr. Choo Yuen May, the Director General of the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB), an agency of the Malaysian federal government.

Not exact matches

Palm oil producers thought they had licked shortages of edible oil and biofuel in the 1980s, when they learned to make genetically identical copies of high oil - yielding palms.

According to Sime Darby, one of the largest palm - oil corporations in Malaysia, the ideal tree would not only yield a lot of oil, it would also be on the shorter side, making it easier to reach fruit stalks.

«Advances to increase yield must be accompanied by stricter regulation and legal limits to the amount of land that can or should be devoted to palm oil,» says Jeff Conant, who directs the international forests programme for Friends of the Earth, an environmental - justice organization in San Francisco, California.

Palm oil also has the best energy balance of any commercial product currently used in biofuel applications, yielding about 9 times the energy required to produce it, according to Dr. Martienssen.

«Mutations in Shell explain the single most important economic trait of the oil palm: how the thickness of its shell correlates to fruit size and oil yield,» explains Dr. Rajinder Singh of the MPOB, first author of the Nature paper describing the Shell gene.

Currently, it can take six years to identify whether an oil palm plantlet is a high - yielding palm.

«Accurate genotyping for enhanced oil yields will optimize and help stabilize the acreage devoted to oil palm plantations, providing an opportunity for the conservation of rainforest reserves,» Martienssen explains.

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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, St. Louis, MO and Cold Spring Harbor, NY — A multinational team of scientists has identified a single gene, called Shell, that regulates yield of the oil palm tree.

«Oil palm genome sequence reveals divergence of interfertile species in Old and New worlds» and «The oil palm SHELL gene controls oil yield and encodes a homologue of SEEDSTICK» will be published online ahead of print in Nature on Wednesday, July 24, 20Oil palm genome sequence reveals divergence of interfertile species in Old and New worlds» and «The oil palm SHELL gene controls oil yield and encodes a homologue of SEEDSTICK» will be published online ahead of print in Nature on Wednesday, July 24, 20oil palm SHELL gene controls oil yield and encodes a homologue of SEEDSTICK» will be published online ahead of print in Nature on Wednesday, July 24, 20oil yield and encodes a homologue of SEEDSTICK» will be published online ahead of print in Nature on Wednesday, July 24, 2013.

NB: Done right, palm is the highest yielding vegetable oil on the planet, producing five to 10 times more oil per acre compared to other commodity oils (like soybean or canola).

But it is most useful in the kitchen, yielding coconut oil, coconut milk, palm nectar, palm wine, coconut meat («copra»), and coconut juice.

At the same time, fertilisers used to boost yields of palm oil plants in converted landscapes, such as Sumatra, are causing significant nitrous oxide emissions.

As the world's highest yielding oilseed, the crop generates substantially more vegetable oil per acre than soy, canola (rapeseed), or corn, meaning that palm oil can help meet future demand for vegetable oil with less land, a point palm growers are quick to mention in any discussion over the environmental impacts of palm oil.

Although production from oil palms is limited to tropical and subtropical regions, the crop yields much more biodiesel per acre than do temperate - zone oilseeds such as soybeans and rapeseed.

Other research has shown that several common biofuel feedstocks — including corn and rapeseed which have considerably lower yields than oil palm — also have high emissions from direct and indirect land use.

By virtue of its high yield, palm oil is a cheaper substitute than other vegetable oils.

Faced with a seemingly insatiable demand for automotive fuel, farmers will want to clear more and more of the remaining tropical forests to produce sugarcane, oil palms, and other high - yielding biofuel crops.

Because of its high oil yield, oil palm would need only 4,200 km2 to fulfill the 2020 demand for biodiesel in Brazil.