Contents

Series list

Introduction

Part 1 Setting the scene

Part 2 Plant physiology and breeding

Part 3 Cultivation techniques

Part 1 Setting the scene

Chapter 1 The palm oil market: growth and trends

1 Introduction

2 Oil palm cultivation and palm oil production

3 Regional oil palm production trends

4 Palm oil industry and market

5 Ecological impact of palm oil production

6 Social impacts

7 Conclusion and future trends

8 Where to look for further information

9 References

Chapter 2 Research trends in oil palm cultivation

1 Introduction

2 Establishment of oil palm as an economic crop

3 Yield improvement

4 Oil palm genomics and genetic engineering

5 Cultivation with minimal environmental impact

6 Conclusion

7 Where to look for further information

8 References

Chapter 3 Sustainability pathways in oil palm cultivation: a comparison of Indonesia, Colombia and Cameroon

1 Introduction

2 Conceptualizing sustainable pathways

3 Oil palm production in Indonesia, Colombia and Cameroon

4 Sustainable pathways: challenges and initiatives

5 The dynamics of sustainability: actors, regulations and practices

6 Conclusions: creating sustainable pathways

7 Where to look for further information

8 References

Chapter 4 The palm oil governance complex: progress, problems and gaps

1 Introduction

2 Conceptual framework: the palm oil governance complex

3 Constituent parts of the palm oil governance complex

4 Critical problems affecting the palm oil governance complex

5 Major gaps in the governance of the palm oil sector

6 Conclusions

7 Where to look for further information

8 References

Part 2 Plant physiology and breeding

Chapter 5 Advances in understanding oil palm reproductive development

1 Introduction

2 Sex ratio

3 Inflorescence and flower development

4 Fruit development and maturation and oil composition

5 Fruit shedding and oil acidification

6 Future trends and conclusion

7 Where to look for further information

8 References

Chapter 6 Diversity in the genetic resources of oil palm

1 Introduction

2 The genetic base of current breeding materials

3 Genetic diversity in oil palm: fruit forms

4 Genetic diversity in oil palm: fruit types

5 Genetic diversity in oil palm: morphological traits

6 Genetic diversity in oil palm: genetic markers

7 Conservation of oil palm collections

8 Utilization of germ plasm

9 Conclusion

10 Where to look for further information

11 Acknowledgement

12 References

Chapter 7 Advances in conventional breeding techniques for oil palm

1 Introduction

2 Early history of oil palm breeding

3 Oil palm breeding from the beginning of the 20th Century

4 Breeding objectives and methods

5 Data collection methods

6 Impact of reciprocal recurrent selection (RRS) on oil yield

7 Impact of oil palm breeding on other traits and using other methods

8 Seed production

9 Future trends

10 References

Chapter 8 Advances in marker-assisted breeding of oil palm

1 Introduction

2 Application of markers for paternity testing in oil palm

3 Genomic resources and tools for MAS

4 MAS for predicting monogenic traits

5 MAS for predicting quantitative traits in oil palm breeding

6 MAS in oil palm tissue culture

7 Factors contributing to large-scale application of MAS in oil palm

8 Future trends

9 Conclusion

10 Where to look for further information

11 References

Chapter 9 Advances in the genetic modification of oil palm

1 Introduction

2 Early and current genetically modified (GM) crop varieties

3 GM oil palm in Malaysia

4 Improving the fatty acid composition of palm oil

5 Progress to date in oil palm transformation

6 New technologies for genome editing – an alternative to ‘classical GM’

7 Conclusions and future prospects

8 Where to look for further information

9 References

Part 3 Cultivation techniques

Chapter 10 Modelling crop growth and yield in palm oil cultivation

1 Introduction

2 Theory and model development

3 Modelling meteorology

4 Modelling photosynthesis

5 Modelling energy balance

6 Modelling soil water flow

7 Modelling crop growth

8 Model testing

9 Results and discussion

10 Conclusion

11 Where to look for further information

12 Acknowledgement

13 List of main symbols

14 References

Chapter 11 Improving soil health and crop nutrition in oil palm cultivation

1 Introduction

2 Soil fertility

3 Nutrient management

4 Mineral nutrition and planting material

5 The specific case of smallholders

6 Future trends and conclusion

7 Where to look for further information

8 References

Chapter 12 Maintaining soil health in oil palm cultivation

1 Introduction

2 Key issues and challenges

3 Management practices and soil health in oil palm plantations

4 Optimizing biomass recycling: the promising way to increase yields and sustainability

5 Future trends in research

6 Where to look for further information

7 References

Chapter 13 Use of palm oil for biofuel

1 Introduction

2 Trends in biofuels

3 Production of palm-based biofuels

4 Biodiesel economics

5 Imports and defiscalisation: the odd alliance

6 The geopolitics of agribusiness: competition between productions systems

7 Conclusions

8 References

Index