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High Throughput genomic services for the oil palm industry

  • Fast and simple sample collection
  • Cutting edge, automated genotyping assays
  • Easy to use customer interface for ordering and data retrieval
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  • BBC: Boosting palm oil production by mapping plant DNA +

    In this segment of BBC disrupting Agriculture learn how Orion Biosains’ oil palm screening service can boost the livelihoods of subsistence farmers in Malaysia and beyond. Read More
  • Loss of Karma transposon methylation underlies the mantled somaclonal variant of oil palm +

    The Malaysian Palm Oil Board and Orion Genomics publish in Nature the discovery of the epigenetic cause of fruit mantling, opening the way to the successful propagation of high-yielding elite oil palm lines. "Loss of Karma transposon methylation underlies the mantled somaclonal variant of oil palm,"(Ong-Abdullah et al. Nature http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature15365)
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  • The oil palm VIRESCENS gene controls fruit colour and encodes a R2R3-MYB +

    Oil palm, a plantation crop of major economic importance in Southeast Asia, is the predominant source of edible oil worldwide. We report the identification of the VIRESCENS (VIR) gene, which controls fruit exocarp colour and is an indicator of ripeness.
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Palm oil genome map will boost yields and protect the environment

You can use the kit with your unique palm crosses, but the banding pattern may not follow the same pattern as found with the Deli dura genetic profile. We have tested different palm species and sometimes you will not observe an amplification from each primer mix. Sometimes, you will see a band of different size due to deletion or insertion within the amplified region of the genomic DNA.

You can follow the SYBR® Green dye detection protocol for a quicker analysis of your data. We recommend running an agarose gel on any samples with atypical genotypes or questionable intensities by SYBR® Green detection.

Samples were amplified with the SureSawit SHELL Gel Kit and analyzed with either the standard gel protocol or the SYBR® Green protocol. +/- patterns were identical in both methods allowing for accurate dura, tenera or pisifera indentification.