Edson Barcelos

TL;DR: African oil palm has the highest productivity amongst cultivated oleaginous crops and could provide a simple practical solution to eliminate global pro-vitamin A deficiency, and the molecular bases of agronomically important traits can be understood at the single base pair resolution, enabling gene-centered breeding and engineering of this remarkable crop.

TL;DR: High levels of allelic variability indicated that E. guineensis SSRs will be a powerful tool for genetic studies of the genus Elaeis, including variety identification and intra- or inter-specific genetic mapping, and phenetic information based on SSR flanking region sequences makes E. GuineensisSSR markers a potentially useful molecular resource for any researcher studying the phylogeny of palm taxa.

TL;DR: Evaluated genetic diversity, its organization and the genetic relationships within oil palm and E. guineensis revealed that genetic divergence between the twospecies is of the same magnitude as that among provenances of E. oleifera, in discrepancy with the supposed early tertiary separation of the two species.

TL;DR: The improvement of native species, the main focus of the breeding programs of the institutions in the Northern region of Brazil, is a form of exploiting the Amazonian biodiversity for the benefit of society.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated linear correlations and their direct and indirect effects on the characters of production for oil palm germplasm in 34 accessions of the Germplasm of Oil Palm from Embrapa considering 37 variables among vegetative characters, bunch yield and bunch components.