30/07/2026
SD Guthrie Bhd’s award-winning super high-yielding oil palm seed, GenomeSelect, has delivered a 33.8% increase in oil yield in oil palms planted in various soils.
GenomeSelect, the result of genomic sequencing and annotation that began in 2009, was first used in 2016. The first harvests were made in 2019.
SD Guthrie’s goal at the time was to achieve a 15% increase in oil yield per hectare compared with its previous generation of planting materials, known as calix600.