Pests and diseases are among the main reasons for low banana productivity in smallholder farming systems in the central African highlands, where the crop is an important staple, In parts of Rwanda, Burundi and North and South Kivu provinces of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, diseases such a...
Ouma, Emily A.
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Dubois, T.
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Kabunga, N.
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Nkurunziza, S.
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Qaim, M.
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Asten, Piet J.A. van
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[Adoption and impact of tissue culture bananas in Burundi: an application of a propensity score matching approach]
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Adoption and impact of tissue culture bananas in Burundi: an application of a propensity score matching approach
At IITA, tissue culture methods, such as meristem, shoot-tip, and node-cutting cultures, are used routinely to eliminate virus infection from improved clones of cassava and yam and for micropropagating cassava, yam, sweet potato, and cocoyams. Virus-tested improved clones of cassava, yam, and swe...
Meristem-tip culture is commonly used to eliminate viruses from plants. The fact that some viruses are more difficult to eliminate than others has led to the use of thermotherapy and chemotheraphy, along with meristem-tip culture, to increase the efficacy of disease elimination. Tissue culture ma...
Ng, S.Y.C.
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Thottappilly, G.
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Rossel, H.W.
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[Tissue culture in disease elimination and micropropagation]
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Tissue culture in disease elimination and micropropagation
Work with cassava in CIAT`s Biotechnology Research Unit covered 2 major areas: in vitro culture techniques and techniques for the analysis of genetic variability. Work was carried out on virus elimination, micropropagation, and germplasm exchange and conservation as well as on the development of ...
The main activities on Phaseolus beans (in vitro culture techniques and biochemical and molecular markers) conducted in 1988 by CIAT`s Biotechnology Research Unit are summarized. (CIAT)
The main activities on Phaseolus beans (tissue culture, genotype identification by electrophoresis, and collaborative research) conducted in 1986 by CIAT`s Biotechnology Research Unit are summarized. (CIAT)