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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...


Ortiz, R.Ferris, R.S.B.Vuylsteke, D.R.[Banana and plantain breeding]Banana and plantain breeding

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...


Asiedu, RobertFatokun, C.A.Mignouna, J.H.Ng, S.Y.C.Quin, F.M.Vuylsteke, D.R.[Underresearched tropical food crops: cowpea, banana and plantain, and yams]Underresearched tropical food crops: cowpea, banana and plantain, and yams

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.Swennen, R.[Biotechnological approaches to plantain and banana improvement at IITA]Biotechnological approaches to plantain and banana improvement at IITA

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