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...
Bananas, Musa species, are perennial giant herbs belonging to the family Musaceae (Zingiberales: Scitaminae) (Simmonds, 1966; Tomlinson, 1969). Most bananas are cultivated for their fleshy fruits, but some clones are planted for their edible conns or for fiber. Bananas are among the most importan...
Swennen, R.
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Vuylsteke, D.R.
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[Bananas in Africa: diversity, uses and prospects for improvement]
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Bananas in Africa: diversity, uses and prospects for improvement
For a mixture of reasons certain tropical crops which are important as primary or secondary food staples are relatively underresearched. The modem tools of molecular and cellular biotechnology offer the opportunity not only to make substantial gains in our knowledge of these crops, but also to ov...
Cassava, yam, and plantain are staple food crops essential to food security in the humid and Sub-humid tropics of Africa. However, these crops have long growth cycles, high perishability and slow multiplication rates of propagation materials, and they are subject to a number of biological stresse...
Asiedu, Robert
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Ng, S.
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Vuylsteke, D.R.
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Terauchi, R.
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Hahn, S.
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[Analysis of the need for biotechnology research on cassava, yam, and plantain]
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Analysis of the need for biotechnology research on cassava, yam, and plantain
Plantains and bananas are an important staple food crop in developing countries. Genetic improvement programmes have been spurred by the rapid spread of black sigatoka disease, but the genus Musa is intractable in terms of conventional breeding strategies. The potential ofbiotechnology in banana ...
Vuylsteke, D.R.
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Swennen, R.
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[Biotechnological approaches to plantain and banana improvement at IITA]
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Biotechnological approaches to plantain and banana improvement at IITA
Horry, J.
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Ortiz, R.
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Arnaud, Elizabeth
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Crouch, J.
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Ferris, R.
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Jones, D.
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Mateo, N.
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Picq, C.
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Vuylsteke, D.R.
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[Banana and plantain]
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Banana and plantain