Organisms Associated with Palm Oil Fruit. CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis ) is a cross-fertilizing arborescent monocot of the genus Elaeis that originates from West Africa (Hartley, 1988). Its diploid genome consists of 16 homologous chromosome pairs (Schwendiman et al. 1982). Its physical size estimated by flow cytometry is 3.9 pg/2C (Rival et al. […]

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