The majority of edible bananas (Musa L.) are triploid (2n = 3x = 33) cultivars known as dessert, plantain, or cooking bananas with predominant AAA, AAB, and ABB genomes, justifying the aim of breeding programs to develop improved hybrids of the different utilization classes in the triploid backgr...
Oselebe, H.O.
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Tenkouano, A.
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Pillay, M.
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Obi, I.U.
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Uguru, M.I.
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[Ploidy and genome segregation in Musa breeding populations assessed by flow cytometry and randomly amplified polymorphic DNA markers]
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Ploidy and genome segregation in Musa breeding populations assessed by flow cytometry and randomly amplified polymorphic DNA markers
Plantain and banana (Musa spp) breeding involves crossing 3x (triploid) landraces to 2x (diploid) accessions as female and male parents, respectively, selecting 4x (tetraploid) and 2x primary hybrids from the 3x - 2x progenies, and crossing 4x - 2x hybrids to produce secondary 3x hybrids. In thes...
Several factors including ploidy and genome composition influence the inheritance of agronomic traits in Musa populations. Research results have indicated that gender determines the inheritance of quantitative traits in this species, but whether inheritance patterns are ploidy-dependent or gender...
Oselebe, H.O.
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Tenkouano, A.
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[Ploidy versus gender effects on inheritance of quantitative traits in Musa species]
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Ploidy versus gender effects on inheritance of quantitative traits in Musa species