Oil palm is the most efficient oil crop available, and is therefore a crucial commodity in feeding the world’s expanding population. Palm oil and palm kernel oil-based ingredients are found in approximately 50% of products on supermarket shelves.
The technical challenge in oil palm breeding is to reduce the required marker density without impacting the phenotype prediction accuracy, thus ensuring that genomic selection is an economically viable approach.
Download the case study to see how Sime Darby Plantation developed their GenomeSelect™ programme to leverage KASP™ genotyping assays to breed commercial populations of oil palm more sustainably and cost-effectively.