Sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas L.(LAM)) is one of the most important food crops in developing countries, including South Africa. Most sweetpotato varieties in South Africa are cream or white fleshed and lack the essential beta-carotene of the orange-fleshed varieties. To develop new varieties with ...
Selaocoe, M.E.
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Adebola, P.
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Pillay, M.
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Laurie, S.M.
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[Genetic diversity of South African sweetpotato germplasm using molecular markers]
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Genetic diversity of South African sweetpotato germplasm using molecular markers
Banana is an important food and cash crop in Uganda. The crop displays wide diversity but the genetic relationship between and withing cultivars is largely unknown. A study was conducted to assess genetic relationships among 'Sukali Ndizi' clones collected from 16 different localities in Uganda ...
Pillay, M.
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Dimkpa, C.O.
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Ude, G.
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Makumbi, Dan
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Tushemereirwe, W.K.
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[Genetic variation in the banana cultivar Sukali ndizi grown in different regions of Uganda]
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Genetic variation in the banana cultivar Sukali ndizi grown in different regions of Uganda
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
Cultivated bananas originated from interspecific hybridisation of two wild diploid (2n = 2x = 22) species, Musa acuminata and M. balbisiana that were the donors of the A and B genomes, respectively. Most cultivated bananas are triploids with 2n = 3x = 33 chromosomes. They vary in genome compositi...