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Oil palm diseases and their control practices in Malaysia / Norhaslina Ali

Oil palm is a very important commodity for many countries especially in Southeast Asia. But there so much concerns about its various pest and diseases around the world. Malaysian oil palm industry has been struggle with the destruction caused by soil borne diseases such as basal stem rot (BSR). Ther...

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Main Author: Ali, Norhaslina
Format: Student Project
Language:English
Published: Faculty of Plantation and Agrotechnology 2016
Online Access:http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/17426/2/PPb_NORHASLINA%20ALI%20AT%2016_5.pdf
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spelling my.uitm.ir.174262019-05-15T06:49:17Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/17426/ Oil palm diseases and their control practices in Malaysia / Norhaslina Ali Ali, Norhaslina Oil palm is a very important commodity for many countries especially in Southeast Asia. But there so much concerns about its various pest and diseases around the world. Malaysian oil palm industry has been struggle with the destruction caused by soil borne diseases such as basal stem rot (BSR). There have many diseases can be found in different oil palm growth stages such as in nursery, immature planting and main field plantation. Nevertheless, different oil palm growing countries have their own different of disease incidences occurred in their oil palm plantation area for example BSR mainly found in Southeast Asia. The most serious disease that caused significant losses in oil palm production is the BSR which manifested by fungal Ganoderma boninense. Previously, many studies have been done and reported on different control strategies for BSR on oil palm such as cultural, chemical, biological and etc. The cultural method only has a little effect on the control of BSR but could prolong the life span of infected-oil palm trees. Our review study has highlighted on diverse implementation of control strategies against all main diseases in oil palm plantations in Malaysia. Therefore, we could identify the most significant threat and its possible curative measures to manage the diseases. Faculty of Plantation and Agrotechnology 2016 Student Project NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/17426/2/PPb_NORHASLINA%20ALI%20AT%2016_5.pdf Ali, Norhaslina (2016) Oil palm diseases and their control practices in Malaysia / Norhaslina Ali. [Student Project] (Unpublished)
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description Oil palm is a very important commodity for many countries especially in Southeast Asia. But there so much concerns about its various pest and diseases around the world. Malaysian oil palm industry has been struggle with the destruction caused by soil borne diseases such as basal stem rot (BSR). There have many diseases can be found in different oil palm growth stages such as in nursery, immature planting and main field plantation. Nevertheless, different oil palm growing countries have their own different of disease incidences occurred in their oil palm plantation area for example BSR mainly found in Southeast Asia. The most serious disease that caused significant losses in oil palm production is the BSR which manifested by fungal Ganoderma boninense. Previously, many studies have been done and reported on different control strategies for BSR on oil palm such as cultural, chemical, biological and etc. The cultural method only has a little effect on the control of BSR but could prolong the life span of infected-oil palm trees. Our review study has highlighted on diverse implementation of control strategies against all main diseases in oil palm plantations in Malaysia. Therefore, we could identify the most significant threat and its possible curative measures to manage the diseases.
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title Oil palm diseases and their control practices in Malaysia / Norhaslina Ali
title_short Oil palm diseases and their control practices in Malaysia / Norhaslina Ali
title_full Oil palm diseases and their control practices in Malaysia / Norhaslina Ali
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title_full_unstemmed Oil palm diseases and their control practices in Malaysia / Norhaslina Ali
title_sort oil palm diseases and their control practices in malaysia / norhaslina ali
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