Bananas (Musa spp.) are consumed worldwide as dessert and cooking types. Edible banana varieties are for the most part seedless and sterile and therefore vegetatively propagated. This confers difficulties for breeding approaches against pressing biotic and abiotic threats and for the nutritional ...
Drapal, Margit
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de Carvalho, E.B.
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Rouard, M.
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Amah, D.
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Sardos, J.
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Houwe, I. van den
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Brown, A.
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Roux, N.
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Swennen, R.
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Fraser, Paul D.
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[Metabolite profiling characterises chemotypes of Musa diploids and triploids at juvenile and preflowering growth stages]
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Metabolite profiling characterises chemotypes of Musa diploids and triploids at juvenile and preflowering growth stages
Evaluating crop biodiversity is a challenging task and needs to integrate knowledge from different levels. This overview paper offers ways to tackle this challenge, illustrated by the case for drought tolerance in banana. KU Leuven hosts the International Musa Germplasm Collection managed by Biov...
Kissel, E.
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Vanhove, A.C.
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García, S.
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Panis, B.
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Rouard, M.
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Cenci, A.
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Roux, N.
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Zorrilla, J.
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Swennen, R.L.
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Carpentier, S.C.
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[Abiotic stress research in crops using -omics approaches: drought stress and banana in the spotlight]
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Abiotic stress research in crops using -omics approaches: drought stress and banana in the spotlight
Banana (Musa) is one of the most important economic and staple crops in the world. The majority of edible cultivated banana species arises from two species of the Eumusa group, Musa acuminata (A genome) and Musa balbisiana(B genome). In order to assess the biochemical diversity that exists in our...
Drapal, Margit
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Carvalho, E.
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Houwe, I. van den
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Rouard, M.
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Sardos, J.
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Amah, D.
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Swennen, R.L.
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Roux, N.
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Fraser, P.
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[A metabolomics approach to the assessment of banana diversity and traits]
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A metabolomics approach to the assessment of banana diversity and traits