Hugh Thanks so much This is well detailed and a very good answer
I would be interested in sending germ plasm for analysis .
Easily accessible fruits with high yield should be a global goal in some small manner.
Once in the 1980'/s the King of Malaysia bright me there(sent me tickets etc) to photograph and write (I did photo-journalism besides just photos.
and i stayed in the Palace.
He brought me to visit with the Sultan of Brunei who was at that time the richest man in the world.
if I have those old contacts i will ask for some localized research facilities to be created in thse areas for obvious reasons.
Borneo/Brunei and malaysia are not that far north of Australia
Hugh your attachment of the article on lipids and VCO is part of exponential research in and demand for
Virgin Coconut Oil that has changed the markets radically in the past 10 years .
now the demand fo high quality conieeur coconut oils will be able to rival the best olive oils from Europe/New Zealand /and California.
there was not demand for coconut oil in the west now it has exploded and the qualities will
vary as much as the packaging and the varieties of tree stock/types.
More and more you will see finely bottled coconut oil right next to $50 bottles of Fine Olive oils and
as chefs begin to use it liberally for its butter like taste and consistency it will take on a new aura of distinguished taste.
The culinary and food source "Oil Wars" fought for many decades for ascendency through enormous mass production of low quality corn and canola oils
and especially with the inherent dangers of Genetically Modified versions of all the major commodity oils (Soy-Corn-Canola) which now have a public backlash directed at them and people are very attracted to the Virgin purity of coconut oil of high quality and coconut products.
The discerning public now gravitates towards the health benefits of coconut oilwhereas the "disinformation" propogated for many decades by the competing other food oils tried to convince the public that coconut was unhealthy. that is now being revealed by the books of so many of our members and coconut wise "nations especially the Phillipines and Thailand where there has enver been any question about the ehalth benefits of coconut oil.
I really suggest niche markets for some memebers in distinctive bottles to emphasize local origins of the oil.
Elan Hawaii