Abstract
Abstract Oil palm ( Elaeis ) is an important economic crop in Malaysia and contributes significantly to the country's economy. Shortage of manpower, arable land and a fluctuating commodity price have forced the industry to widen its scope from being solely dependent on the edible oil market into more diverse applications and higher-return products. Genetic engineering, with all its advantages over conventional breeding, has been identified as a tool for synthesizing high-value-added products in transgenic oil palm. Genetic engineering requires reliable transformation and regeneration systems. Successful production of transgenic oil palm was achieved six years ago. The transgenic plants have started flowering and are still expressing the transgenes. Significant achievements in biochemical studies and isolation of useful oil palm genes and promoters have been reported. A wide range of transformation vectors are being constructed using the genes and promoters from oil palm and are being transformed into oil palm tissue cultures. The latest achievements in the production of transgenic oil palm carrying useful genes are reviewed.
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