This 265-page book gathers together 16 scientific articles presented during a meeting held in Costa Rica in July 1998 focusing on the production of environmentally sustainable and economically profitable banana and plantain. Participants from ten different countries provided information on the va...
Rosales, F.E.
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Tripon, S.C.
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Cerna, J.
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International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain
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[Organic/environmentally friendly banana production: Proceedings of a workshop held at EARTH, Guacimo, Costa Rica, 27 - 29 July 1998]
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Organic/environmentally friendly banana production: Proceedings of a workshop held at EARTH, Guacimo, Costa Rica, 27 - 29 July 1998
Diversification has never been so important, as it is now for small-scale farmers competing in a free market economy. Countries of the Caribbean have recognised the niche in the market for organic bananas, the Dominican Republic currently being the largest exporter of organic bananas. This meetin...
Holderness, M.
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Sharrock, S.
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Frison, Emile A.
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Kairo, M.K.
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International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain
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[Organic banana 2000: towards an organic banana initiative in the Caribbean: Report of the international workshop on the production and marketing of organic bananas by smallholders. 31 October - 4 November 1999, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic]
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Organic banana 2000: towards an organic banana initiative in the Caribbean: Report of the international workshop on the production and marketing of organic bananas by smallholders. 31 October - 4 November 1999, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
For the International Musa Testing Programme (IMTP) Phase II, germplasm was evaluated for resistance to black Sigatoka (M. fijiensis), yellow Sigatoka (M. musicola) and Fusarium wilt (Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense). The majority of IMTP Phase II trials were planted during 1996 and 1997. The f...
Orjeda, G.
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International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain
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[Evaluating bananas: A global partnership: results of IMTP phase II]
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Evaluating bananas: A global partnership: results of IMTP phase II
This publication results from a collaboration between FHIA, Honduras and INIBAP and provides information on the tremendous work carried out by Paul Allen during the 1950's and 60's to build and characterise the Musa collection of the United Fruit Co. (now FHIA's collection). The book contains dat...
Rosales, F.
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Arnaud, Elizabeth
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Coto, J.
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International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain
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[A tribute to the work of Paul Allen: A catalogue of wild and cultivated bananas]
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A tribute to the work of Paul Allen: A catalogue of wild and cultivated bananas
There are more than a thousand varieties of banana, the tallest herb in the world. This document traces the history of the nutritious fruit which is one of the most important food crops in the world. The dessert banana industry is described. The crop management cycle is presented from planting to...
This manual is based on the results of 2.5 years (1993-1995) of research work conducted at the Fundación Hondureña de Investigación Agrícola (FHIA) in Honduras. The manual describes post-harvest characteristics at harvest, maturation, green-life, ripening quality and organoleptic features of blac...
Dadzie, B.K.
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[Post-harvest characteristics of black Sigatoka resistant banana, cooking banana and plantain hybrids]
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Post-harvest characteristics of black Sigatoka resistant banana, cooking banana and plantain hybrids
The up-to-date versions of the INIBAP databases, MUSALIT - containing abstracts and bibliographic records of publications on Musa, and BRIS - the database of banana researchers are available. As are all of the recent publications, including Strategy for the global Musa, new factsheets and publica...
Between 1991 to 1996, more than 50 Musa hybrids and 10 landraces were evaluated under field and screenhouse conditions for virus symptoms resembling those caused by banana streak badnavirus (BSV). The symptoms included chlorotic streaks, leaf deformation, stunting, cigar leaf death, distortion of...
Dahal, G.
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Gauhl, F.
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Pasberg‐Gauhl, C.
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Hughes, J.D.A.
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Thottappilly, G.
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Lockhart, B.E.L.
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[Evaluation of micropropagated plantain and banana (Musa spp.) for banana streak badnavirus incidence under field and screenhouse conditions in Nigeria]
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Evaluation of micropropagated plantain and banana (Musa spp.) for banana streak badnavirus incidence under field and screenhouse conditions in Nigeria
International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain
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[Infomusa: The international magazine on banana and plantain: Vol. 14(2)]
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Infomusa: The international magazine on banana and plantain: Vol. 14(2)
The International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain (INIBAP) organized a survey of banana diversity in the Middle East in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). It was the first effort at the international level to systematically explore banana cultivar d...
De Langhe, E.
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International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain
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[Banana diversity in the Middle East (Jordan, Egypt, Oman)]
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Banana diversity in the Middle East (Jordan, Egypt, Oman)