Postgraduate Opportunity (PhD &MSc)
A collaborative project between MIU and MPOB
Systems Biology of Tissue Culture - Derived Oil Palm
SYNOPSIS OF THE PROJECT
Aside from being a boon in creating new varieties for crop improvement, the tissue culture approach can potentially produce abnormal or off-type cultures at various stages of the process. This research will primarily focus on the regeneration stages of the oil palm tissue culture process. In standard operation workflow, cultures undergo strict selection process to weed out off-type cultures (or also known as abnormal cultures) during polyembryoid maintenance, shoot development and root induction stages. In this project, we intend to associate the phenotypes established at these stages to their corresponding transcriptome, epigenome, proteome, and metabolome to enable a better understanding of the mechanisms involved and to utilize this information for future manipulations in oil palm clonal propagation.
Three topics have been identified to realize this project:
1) Leveraging phenomics for the production of quality clones for sustainable oil palm cultivation (PhD)
2) Morphotyping oil palm polyembryoids via omics technology (MSc)
3) Quality assurance of Elaeis guineensis ramets through molecular characterization (MSc)
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