Banana and plantain (Musa spp.) are major staple foods and a source of income for millions in tropical and subtropical regions. Most of the bananas and plantains grown worldwide are produced by small-scale farmers for home consumption or sale in local and regional markets. Many pests and diseases...
Pseudocercospora fijiensis, causal agent of the black Sigatoka disease (BSD) of Musa spp., has spread globally since its discovery in Fiji 1963 to all the banana and plantain growing areas across the globe. It is becoming the most damaging and economically important disease of this crop. The iden...
Onyilo, F.
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Tusiime, Geoffrey
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Tripathi, J.N.
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Chen, L.H.
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Falk, B.
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Stergiopoulos, I.
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Tushemereirwe, W.K.
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Kubiriba, J.
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Tripathi, L.
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[Silencing of the mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPK) fus3 and slt2 in pseudocercospora fijiensis reduces growth and virulence on host plants]
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Silencing of the mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPK) fus3 and slt2 in pseudocercospora fijiensis reduces growth and virulence on host plants
Plant parasitic nematodes impose losses of up to 70% on plantains and cooking bananas in Africa.
Application of nematicides is inappropriate and resistant cultivars are unavailable. Where grown, demand
for plantain is more than for other staple crops. Confined field testing demonstrated that tran...
Tripathi, L.
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Babirye, A.
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Roderick, H.
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Tripathi, J.N.
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Changa, C.
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Urwin, P.E.
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Tushemereirwe, W.K.
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Coyne, D.L.
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Atkinson, H.J.
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[Field resistance of transgenic plantain to nematodes has potential for future African food security]
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Field resistance of transgenic plantain to nematodes has potential for future African food security
In banana and plantain research, it is essential to establish embryogenic cell suspensions together with a highly efficient regeneration and transformation system. This article describes the development of an embryogenic cell suspension (ECS), regeneration, and transformation for plantain cv. “Go...
Plant parasitic nematodes impose a severe constraint on plantain and banana productivity; however, the sterile nature of many cultivars precludes conventional breeding for resistance. Transgenic plantain cv. Gonja manjaya (Musa AAB) plants, expressing a maize cystatin that inhibits nematode diges...
Roderick, H.
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Tripathi, L.
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Babirye, A.
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Wang, D.
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Tripathi, J.N.
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Urwin, P.E.
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Atkinson, H.J.
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[Generation of transgenic plantain (Musa spp.) with resistance to plant pathogenic nematodes]
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Generation of transgenic plantain (Musa spp.) with resistance to plant pathogenic nematodes
Bananas and plantains (Musa spp.) provide 25 % of the food energy requirements for more than 100 million people in Africa. Plant parasitic nematodes cause severe losses to the crop due to lack of control options. The sterile nature of Musa spp. hampers conventional breeding but makes the crop sui...
Onyango, S.O.
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Roderick, H.
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Tripathi, J.N.
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Collins, R.
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Atkinson, H.J.
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Oduor, R.O.
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Tripathi, L.
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[The ZmRCP‑1 promoter of maize provides root tip specific expression of transgenes in plantain]
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The ZmRCP‑1 promoter of maize provides root tip specific expression of transgenes in plantain
An Agrobacterium-mediated plant transformation system was developed for the production of transgenic plantain [Musa spp. cultivar Agbagba (AAB)]. Apical shoot tips were transformed using Agrobacterium strain EHA105 with the binary vector pCAMBIA 1201, having the hygromycin resistancegene as a sel...