Thriteen years after the 1st international workshop on Sigatoka diseases of Banana held in San José, Costa Rica, in March 1989, the present proceedings offer an overview of the current situation regarding Mycosphaerella leaf spot diseases at the global level.
Jacome, L.
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Lepoivre, P.
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Martin, D.
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Ortiz, R.
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Escalant, J-V.
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[Mycosphaerella leaf spot diseases of bananas: present status and outlook: Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Mycosphaerella leaf spot diseases held in San José, Costa Rica, 20-23 may 2002]
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Mycosphaerella leaf spot diseases of bananas: present status and outlook: Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Mycosphaerella leaf spot diseases held in San José, Costa Rica, 20-23 may 2002
Diploid cultivated species, haploids derived from tetraploid cultivars, and their wildSolanum relatives were used to generate various diploid potato genetic stocks. These stocks have significant value in potato breeding because: 1) genetic diversity in the potato population can be kept variable w...
Watanabe, K.
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Orillo, M.
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Iwanaga, Masaru
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Ortiz, R.
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Freyre, R.
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Perez, S.
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[Diploid potato germplasm derived from wild and landrace genetic resources]
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Diploid potato germplasm derived from wild and landrace genetic resources
Ortiz, R.
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International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
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[IITA: 50 years after, transforming Africa's agriculture and nourishing rural development]
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IITA: 50 years after, transforming Africa's agriculture and nourishing rural development
Vuylsteke, D.R.
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Swennen, R.
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Ortiz, R.
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[Registration of 14 improved tropical Musa plantain hybrids with black sigatoka resistance]
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Registration of 14 improved tropical Musa plantain hybrids with black sigatoka resistance
Musa cultivars (bananas and plantains) are important crops in the humid tropics of Africa, America and Asia. This paper reports the extent of morphological variation of the Musa germplasm maintained in the gene-bank of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture in southeastern Nigeria. Q...
Epidermal and histological characterization of Musa species and cultivars were carried out to investigate the descriptor value of calcium oxalate between groups and subgroups of cultivars. Epidermal peels of the bracts of selected plantain and banana cultivars stained with 0.01% safranin solution...
Osuji, J.O.
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Okoli, B.E.
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Ortiz, R.
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[Taxonomic value of calcium oxalate cystals in Musa germplasm]
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Taxonomic value of calcium oxalate cystals in Musa germplasm
Sustainable resource management is the critical agricultural research and development challenge in sub-Saharan Africa. The accumulated knowledge on soil management gathered over the last 10 years, combined with solid crop improvement and plant health research at farmers’ level, has brought us to ...
Sanginga, Nteranya
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Dashiell, Kenton E.
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Diels, J.
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Vanlauwe, Bernard
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Lyasse, O.
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Carsky, R.J.
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Tarawali, Shirley A.
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Asafo-Adjei, B.
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Menkir, A.
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Schulz, S.
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Singh, B.B.
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Chikoye, D.
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Keatinge, D.
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Ortiz, R.
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[Sustainable resource management coupled to resilient germplasm to provide new intensive cereal-grain-legume-livestock systems in the dry savanna.]
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Sustainable resource management coupled to resilient germplasm to provide new intensive cereal-grain-legume-livestock systems in the dry savanna.
This volume of Plant Breeding Reviews is dedicated to the memory of Dirk R. Vuylsteke who died tragically in an air crash on January 30, 2000, while actively engaged in his live long passion, the betterment of efforts to fight hunger and poverty in tropical Africa. Dirk was a leading Musa scienti...
Variety improvement of plantain and banana (Musa spp.) is based on genetic diversity, which provides the basis for selection gain. This paper reviews result obtained by the Plantain and Banana Improvement Programme (PBIP) of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture in the development o...
Ortiz, R.
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Vuylsteke, D.R.
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Ferris, R.
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[Development of improved plantain/banana germplasm with black sigatoka resistance]
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Development of improved plantain/banana germplasm with black sigatoka resistance