Bananas and plantains are both important staple foods and cash crops for millions of people. Bananas are large perennial herbs of the genus Musa. Cultivated bananas are primarily triploids (3x) derived from intraspecific and interspecific crosses of two diploid species Musa acuminata Colla (Ma.) ...
Triploid plantains (Musa AAB) are among the most important horticultural crops of West Africa. However, all landraces are susceptible to black Sigatoka, a fungal disease caused by Mycosphaerella fijiensis, Morelet. To ameliorate the spread of this epidemic, exotic triploid cooking bananas (ABB), ...
Ferris, R.S.B.
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Ortiz, R.
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Vuylsteke, D.R.
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[Fruit quality evaluation of plantains, plantain hybrids, and cooking bananas]
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Fruit quality evaluation of plantains, plantain hybrids, and cooking bananas
The susceptibility and sensitivity to Radopholus similis and Helicotylenchus multicintus of 2-month-old plants derived from sword suckers (early screening) and of sword suckers of established 18-month-old mats belonging to 12 Musa genotype was investigated and compared. Differences in nematode po...
Speijer, P.R.
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Boonen, E.
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Vuylsteke, D.R.
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Swennen, R.L.
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Waele, D. de
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[Nematode reproduction and damage to Musa sword suckers and sword sucker derived plants]
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Nematode reproduction and damage to Musa sword suckers and sword sucker derived plants
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...
Ferris, R.S.B.
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Ortiz, R.
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Chukwu, U.
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Akalumhe, Y.O.
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Akele, S.
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Ubi, A.
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Vuylsteke, D.R.
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[The introduction and market potential of exotic black sigatoka resistant cooking banana cultivars in West Africa]
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The introduction and market potential of exotic black sigatoka resistant cooking banana cultivars in West Africa
Vuylsteke, D.R.
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Swennen, R.
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Ortiz, R.
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[Registration of 14 improved tropical Musa plantain hybrids with black sigatoka resistance]
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Registration of 14 improved tropical Musa plantain hybrids with black sigatoka resistance
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
This publication reviews in detail the history of shoot-tip culture of Musa, in vitro propagation procedures, in vitro conservation, germplasm exchange using in vitro cultures and potential problems.
Vuylsteke, D.R.
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[Shoot tip culture for the propagation, conservation and exchange of Musa germplasm]
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Shoot tip culture for the propagation, conservation and exchange of Musa germplasm
Ortiz, R.
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Austin, P.D.
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Vuylsteke, D.R.
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[IITA High Rainfall Station: twenty years of research for sustainable agriculture in the West African humid forest]
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IITA High Rainfall Station: twenty years of research for sustainable agriculture in the West African humid forest
Plantains and bananas (Musa spp. L.) are inter- or intraspecific triploid hybrids derived from crosses between M. acuminata Colla. (A genome) and M. balbisiana Colla. (B genome). Cultivars have been assigned to different taxonomic groups (AA, BB, AAA, AAB, ABB, etc.) based on morphological qualit...
Osuji, J.O.
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Okoli, B.E.
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Vuylsteke, D.R.
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Ortiz, R.
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[Multivariate pattern of quantitative trait variation in triploid banana and plantain cultivars]
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Multivariate pattern of quantitative trait variation in triploid banana and plantain cultivars