IITA has increased its knowledge about major constraints across agro-ecological zones and gene pools for Musa production in Africa. The authors review the following different aspects: adding more desirable attributes to breeding populations; integration of host-plant resistance, enhanced utilizat...
The cowpea breeding programmes are reviewed and achievements at two major centres of cowpea research, i.e. IITA (Nigeria) and IARI (India), are summarized. Earlyand extra early genotypes are always photoperiod-insensitive, medium maturity varieties could be sensitive or neutral today length, whil...
Most cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) improvement programs depend on the range of variability available within the cultigen for breeding varieties adapted to target environments. Efforts by some programs to introduce additional variability from wild Manihot species into cassava have led to impr...
Asiedu, Robert
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Hahn, S.K.
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Bai, K.V.
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Dixon, A.
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[Interspecific hybridization in the genus Manihot progress and prospects]
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Interspecific hybridization in the genus Manihot progress and prospects
Current efforts to produce improved genotypes of plantain and banana (Musa spp.) depend on crossing female-fertile clones with accessions that produce viable pollen. Musa accessions (168) were screened for production of viable pollen based on staining with acetocarmine glycerol jelly. Diploid hyb...
Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) contains cyanogenic glucosides which lead to the release of hydrogen cyanide (HCN) after hydrolysis. A study carried out using six cassava populations revealed that the broad-sense heritability for HCN was relatively low at 34.58 and 32.18 percent in roots and l...
Seed set in triploid Musa spp. L. is very low due to high levels of sterility. This makes cross breeding of plantain and banana difficult. Nonetheless, several triploid plantain and banana cultivars produce seeds after hand pollination with diploid parents. This paper reports results about the pa...
Forty-seven cultivars of cassava in IITA's trials were screened for their reaction to infection by Colletotrichum gloesporiodes f. sp. manihotis in the field. The following parameters were observed: (a) distance of first canker from the soil, (b) total number of cankers per plant, (c) size of can...
Ikotun, T.
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Hahn, S.K.
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[Screening cassava cultivars for resistance to the cassava anthracnose disease (CAD)]
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Screening cassava cultivars for resistance to the cassava anthracnose disease (CAD)
Ortiz, R.
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Vuylsteke, D.R.
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Crouch, H.
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Crouch, J.
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[TM3x: triploid black sigatoka resistant Musa hybrid germplasm]
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TM3x: triploid black sigatoka resistant Musa hybrid germplasm
Ortiz, R.
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Vuylsteke, D.R.
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[BITA3: a starchy banana with partial resistance to black sigatoka and tolerance to streak virus]
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BITA3: a starchy banana with partial resistance to black sigatoka and tolerance to streak virus
Ortiz, R.
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Vuylsteke, D.R.
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[Recommended experimental designs for selection of plantain hybrids]
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Recommended experimental designs for selection of plantain hybrids