Looking at Oil Palm’s Genome for Keys to Productivity

Wednesday, July 24, 2013 - 19:10 in Biology & Nature

Scientists have found that mutations to a single gene of the oil palm tree, a huge global industry, can raise the oil yield of the tree by as much as 30 percent.

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