Breeding of high yielding and dwarf oil palm planting materials using Deli dura × Nigerian pisifera population

• Main Authors: Arolu, Ibrahim Wasiu, Yusop, Mohd Rafii, Marjuni, Marhalil, Musa, Mohamed Hanafi, Sulaiman, Zulkefly, Harun, Abdul Rahim, Zainol Abidin, Mohd Isa, Amiruddin, Mohd Din, Din, Ahmad Kushairi, Nookiah, Rajanaidu
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2017
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/12720/1/Breeding%20of%20high%20yielding%20and%20dwarf%20oil%20palm%20planting%20materials%20using%20Deli%20dura%20%C3%97%20Nigerian%20pisifera%20population.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/12720/; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10681-017-1943-z

In practice, progeny and individual palm selection are believed to be the most suitable breeding approach for improvement of quantitative traits in oil palm because their phenotypic expressions are strongly influenced by abiotic factors. Therefore progeny selection approach was applied in this study...