The livelihoods of millions of Ugandan farmers have been threatened by current outbreak of a banana bacterial wilt disease caused by Xanthomonas campestris pv. musacearum, which is very destructive and rapidly spreading in Uganda. Bananas are the highest value staple food and source of income for...
Tripathi, L.
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Tripathi, J.N.
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Tushemereirwe, W.K.
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[Strategies to resistance to bacterial wilt disease of banana through genetic engineering]
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Strategies to resistance to bacterial wilt disease of banana through genetic engineering
Medicinal plants are the most important source of life saving drugs for the majority of the world's population. The biotechnological tools are important to select, multiply and conserve the critical genotypes of medicinal plants. In-vitro regeneration holds tremendous potential for the production...
East Africa is the largest banana producing and consuming region in Africa. In particular, the East
African Highland Banana serves as the major staple crop of countries like Uganda, but production is
constrained by a number of serious pests and diseases. Banana breeding is a very difficult and sl...
Tripathi, L.
,
Tripathi, J.N.
,
Tushemereirwe, W.K.
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[Rapid and efficient production of transgenic East African highland banana (Musa spp.) using intercalary meristematic tissues]
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Rapid and efficient production of transgenic East African highland banana (Musa spp.) using intercalary meristematic tissues