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High Throughput genomic services for the oil palm industry

  • Fast and simple sample collection
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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

Orion Biosains launches the SureSawit™ VIR test

In collaboration with the Malaysian Palm Oil Board, Orion Biosains launched the SureSawit VIR test at the 2015 Transfer of Technology Day. You can see all the excitement and learn more about the VIR test in the attached videos.


SureSawit™ VIR launch at TOT, 2015


SureSawit™ VIR Test

Orion Biosains at ISP 2015

In June of 2015, Orion Biosains launched the SureSawit™ Services in our booth and at a Post Conference Talk at the Incorporated Society of Planters meeting. You can see some of the highlights in these pictures and videos.


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Orion Biosains Post Conference Talk, ISP 2015


Welcome, PCT 2014 by Hj Daud Hj Amatzin, Chairman ISP


Closing remarks, PCT 2015 by Mr Kamal Ahmad Milatu, Chairman ISPM