Recombinant DNA technology has great potential to enhance and extend the advantages of conventional plant breeding, and increase the production and productivity of crops to meet the increasing demand for food and food products in the future. Judicious application of this technology provides oppor...
Sharma, K.K.
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Sharma, H.C.
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Seetharama, N.
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Ortiz, R.
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[Development and deployment of transgenic plants: biosafety considerations]
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Development and deployment of transgenic plants: biosafety considerations
Recent successes in the conventional cross-breeding of plantains and cooking bananas by genetic improvement programmes will inevitably lead to an increase in the number of new clones that require testing before release to farmers. In most cases testing focused on disease resistance and yield but ...
Korie, S.
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Walker, P.
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Ortiz, R.
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Vuylsteke, D.R.
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Ferris, R.S.B.
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[Statistical tools to evaluate sensory data fro testing fruit quality of Musa]
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Statistical tools to evaluate sensory data fro testing fruit quality of Musa
Scientific strategies for crop improvement ensue from genetic knowledge gain from the relevant breeding populations. Few genetic studies were undertaken in Musa before the 1990s, despite the importance of the crop in human diet in the tropics. It was believed that genetic studies of most cultivat...
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
Spatial nutrient distribution was studied under a multi-species hedgerow cropping with plantain on an acid ultisol in southeastern Nigeria. The objective of this study was to evaluate variation in soil nutrients under alleys formed by multi-species hedgerows at three sampling sites: 0.5 m around ...
Owoeye, L.G.
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Ortiz, R.
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Gichuru, M.P.
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Vuylsteke, D.R.
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[Variation in soil nutrient levels under multispecies hedgerow cropping with plantain]
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Variation in soil nutrient levels under multispecies hedgerow cropping with plantain
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.
The triploid plantain landrace Obino l Ewai (Musa spp., AAB genome) has been crossed with a wild diploid banana (M. acuminata subsp. burmannica var. Calcutta 4 , AA genome) to generate full-sib diploid and tetraploid hybrids combining good agronomic performance and disease resistance. Microsatell...
Crouch, J.
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Crouch, H.
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Tenkouano, A.
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Ortiz, R.
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[VNTRbased diversity analysis of 2x and 4x fullsib Musa hybrids]
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VNTRbased diversity analysis of 2x and 4x fullsib Musa hybrids
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...
The agronomic potential of landraces and cultivars must be determined for an optimal utilization of genetic resources in Musa improvement. Field assessment of 75 plantain landraces and 17 banana cultivars was carried out in two representative locations in Nigeria: Onne (southeastern humid lowland...
Micropropagated plants of 36 Musa genotypes with diverse genetic backgrounds, including 14 tetraploid plantain (TMPx) and banana (TMBx) hybrids, were evaluated for their response to banana streak badnavirus (BSV) infection under three environments from 1995 to 1997 in Nigeria. The characteristics...
Dahal, G.
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Ortiz, R.
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Tenkouano, A.
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Hughes, J.
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Thottappilly, G.
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Vuylsteke, D.R.
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Lockhart, B.E.L.
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[Relationship between natural occurrence of banana streak badnavirus and symptom expression, relative concentration of viral antigen, and yield characteristics of some micropropagated Musa spp]
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Relationship between natural occurrence of banana streak badnavirus and symptom expression, relative concentration of viral antigen, and yield characteristics of some micropropagated Musa spp