Identifying practicable functional biomarkers to monitor nutritional requirements in oil palm agrosystems (iPALMS)

This project aims to set up a biomonitoring technology based on functional genomics to control potassium fertilization in oil palm. The iPALMS is devoted to the elaboration of a K-Bio-Index which will permit a better potassium fetilizer use by planters. The researchers will use metabolomics and preteomics to explore the functional linkage between K conditions and oil palm metabolic efficiency and identify biomarkers that could be implemented to better define K fertilization strategies.