Despite considerable efforts of Musa improvement programmes, banana and plantain production still depends upon a limited number of landraces selected by man from the natural germplasm. Inability to replace land-races by cultivars obtained through cross-breeding creates the increased risk of epide...
The triploid nature of plantain and its pattern of inheritance should have represented a challenge and an incentive for geneticists. However, few genetic and cytological investigations have been done in Musa spp. Both banana and plantain have been ignored and neglected as material for basic genet...
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
Banana(Musa spp. L.) breeding, aiming to develop pest resistant cultivars for the export trade, started about 75 years ago in the West Indies. However, all banana exported today are still farmers' selection from somatic mutants of the group of Cavendish, and have a very narrow genetic base. In th...
Ortiz, R.
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Vuylsteke, D.R.
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[Recent advances in Musa genetics, breeding and biotechnology]
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Recent advances in Musa genetics, breeding and biotechnology
Ploidy polymorphism occurs in the hybrid offspring derived from interspecific crosses between triploid plantains (Musa spp. AAB group) and diploid bananas (M. acuminata). Therefore, Musa breeders are interested in the determination of ploidy and its effects on phenotypic expression of quantitativ...
Vandenhout, H.
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Ortiz, R.
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Vuylsteke, D.R.
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Swennen, R.
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Bai, K.
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[Effect of ploidy on stomatal and other quantitative traits in plantain and banana hybrids]
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Effect of ploidy on stomatal and other quantitative traits in plantain and banana hybrids
Quantitative variation for pollen stainability was examined in both tetraploid × diploid and tetraploid × tetraploid families of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.). The diploid parents, which were highly heterozygous, produced first division restitution (FDR) 2n pollen. The families used were not affe...
Ortiz, R.
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Peloquin, S.
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[Effect of sporophytic heterozygosity on the male gametophyte of the tetraploid potato (Solanum tuberosum)]
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Effect of sporophytic heterozygosity on the male gametophyte of the tetraploid potato (Solanum tuberosum)
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...
Ortiz, R.
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[Genetic and phenotypic correlations in plantainbanana euploid hybrids]
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Genetic and phenotypic correlations in plantainbanana euploid hybrids
Phenotypic diversity for agronomic characteristics was determined in an experiment without fertilizer in 1998 in 41 two-row and 21 six-row winter barley accessions, provided by the Nordic Gene Bank, at Højbakkegård (Denmark). There were significant differences among these 62 accessions for spring...
Ortiz, R.
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Mohamed, S.F.
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Madsen, S.
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Weibull, J.
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Christiansen, J.L.
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[Assessment of phenotypic variation of winter barley in Scandinavia]
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Assessment of phenotypic variation of winter barley in Scandinavia