Fruit size is an important commercial characteristic for markets specializing in plantains. Bunch pruning and appropriate soil fertility management are measures adopted to improve the fruit size of Musacrops in many countries. This study investigated the combined effects of poultry manure and bun...
Baiyeri, K.
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Aba, S.C.
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Faturoti, B.
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Tenkouano, A.
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[Effects of poultry manure and bunch pruning management on fruit size, shelf life and pulp colour of PITA 24 and MbiEgome plantains (Musa sp. AAB group)]
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Effects of poultry manure and bunch pruning management on fruit size, shelf life and pulp colour of PITA 24 and MbiEgome plantains (Musa sp. AAB group)
Perennial horticultural crop production is sensitive to temperature, water availability, solar radiation, air pollution, and CO2. The value of perennial horticultural crops is derived from not only the quantity but also the quality of the harvested product. Perennial crop production is not easily...
Glenn M
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Kim SH
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Ramírez Villegas, Julián
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Läderach, Peter
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[Response of Perennial Horticultural Crops to Climate Change]
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Response of Perennial Horticultural Crops to Climate Change
Banana (Musa spp.) is an important perennial crop in tropical countries. Testing improved germplasm and/or agronomic practices to increase productivity requires accuracy and precision. The objectives of this study were to determine the optimum plot size (i.e., number of plants per experimental pl...
Ortiz, R.
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[Plot techniques for assessment of bunch weight in banana trials under two systems of crop management]
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Plot techniques for assessment of bunch weight in banana trials under two systems of crop management
Cultivated plantains and bananas (Musa spp.) are important staple crops in the humid forest and midaltitude ecologies of sub-Saharan Africa. Their water requirement is relatively high and they are very sensitive to dry soil conditions, which greatly limits their range of cultivation. While long-t...
Ekanayake, I.J.
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Ortiz, R.
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Vuylsteke, D.R.
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[Physiological factors in drought tolerance of various Musa genotype]
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Physiological factors in drought tolerance of various Musa genotype
Ploidy polymorphism occurs in the hybrid offspring derived from interspecific crosses between triploid plantains (Musa spp. AAB group) and diploid bananas (M. acuminata). Therefore, Musa breeders are interested in the determination of ploidy and its effects on phenotypic expression of quantitativ...
Vandenhout, H.
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Ortiz, R.
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Vuylsteke, D.R.
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Swennen, R.
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Bai, K.
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[Effect of ploidy on stomatal and other quantitative traits in plantain and banana hybrids]
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Effect of ploidy on stomatal and other quantitative traits in plantain and banana hybrids
Vuylsteke, D.R.
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Ortiz, R.
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Pasberg-Gauhl, C.
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Gauhl, F.
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Gold, C.
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Ferris, S.
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Speijer, P.
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[Plantain and banana research at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture]
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Plantain and banana research at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
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 resistance gene as a se...
Virus-like symptoms (due to banana streak virus, cucumber mosaic virus, or both) have been observed in plants of Musa hybrids (TMPx) and local landraces included in multilocational trials in sub-Saharan Africa. Virus-like symptom incidence in these multilocational trials was analyzed using the ad...
Ortiz, R.
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[The potential of AMMI analysis for field assessment of Musa genotypes to virus infection]
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The potential of AMMI analysis for field assessment of Musa genotypes to virus infection
Four types of morphologically distinct somaclonal variants were identified in a population of False Horn plantain (Musa spp., AAB group) plants produced by in vitro shoot-tip culture. Field performance of these variants was compared with true-to-type plantain to evaluate their horticultural trait...
Vuylsteke, D.R.
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Swennen, R.
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Langhe, E. de
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[Field performance of somaclonal variants of plantain (Musa spp., AAB group)]
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Field performance of somaclonal variants of plantain (Musa spp., AAB group)