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The CSet Program, a 5-year program funded by DOST-PCAARRD, aims to mass propagate coconut planting materials using plumular tissues of identified tall, dwarf and hybrid varieties through coconut somatic embryogenesis. This program adopted the enhanced PCA-CSet protocol in seven (7) partner tissue culture laboratories that were upgraded for the protocol. These laboratories are located in …
Aspidiotus rigidus, an invasive pest commonly known as coconut scale insect (CSI) reached devastating outbreak levels in different areas in the Philippines, which is still a threat in other coconut areas in the Philippines as shown by the Species Distribution Model with high predictive power. Nevertheless, a native parasitoid Comperiella calauanica, first described in the …
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The seven CSET laboratory are now maintaining 312,465 calloids, 84,175 somatic embryos, 1,459 shootlets, 487 plantlets in the seven partner laboratories. There is a total of 30 ex vitro plants in the nursery and screenhouse that are being maintained out of the 226 potted-out plants from the different laboratories.