Nursery Screening for Ganoderma Response in Oil Palm Seedlings

Author

Brian Forster (Verdant Bioscience, Indonesia)

Miranti Rahmaningsih (Verdant Bioscience, Indonesia)

Ike Virdiana (Verdant Bioscience, Indonesia)

Syamsul Bahri (Verdant Bioscience, Indonesia)

Yassier Anwar (Verdant Bioscience, Indonesia)

Frederic Breton (Cirad, France)

This is a hands-on, practical guide covering seedling screening for disease response in oil palm for pathology, breeding and genetics. Oil palm is the top oil crop in the world and Ganoderma is the most devastating disease of oil palm.