Forty eight accessions of cultivated cowpea were assessed using 12 simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers. The unweighted pair group method with arithmetic mean (UPGMA) dendrogram constructed revealed three main clusters when truncated at 65% similarity coefficient. All accessions showed high genet...
Fifteen AFLP primer pairs (EcoRI+3 and MseI+3) and 60 10-mer RAPD primers were used to detect polymorphisms and assess genetic relationships in a sample of 25 plantains from diverse parts of Western and Central Africa. The discriminatory power of the AFLP technique was greater than that of the RA...
Ude, G.
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Pillay, M.
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Ogundiwin, E.
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Tenkouano, A.
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[Genetic diversity in an African plantain core collection using AFLP and RAPD markers]
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Genetic diversity in an African plantain core collection using AFLP and RAPD markers
Two tropical maize composites were subjected to four cycles of reciprocal recurrent selection to develop divergent inbred lines with good combining ability. This study was conducted to examine the extent of genetic diversity, changes in allele composition and genetic structure, of 100 randomly se...
Kolawole, A.O.
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Menkir, A.
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Gedil, M.
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Blay, E.
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Ofori, K.
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Kling, J.G.
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[Genetic divergence in two tropical maize composites after four cycles of reciprocal recurrent selection]
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Genetic divergence in two tropical maize composites after four cycles of reciprocal recurrent selection
The starchy swollen roots of cassava provide an essential food source for nearly a billion people, as well as possibilities for bioenergy, yet improvements to nutritional content and resistance to threatening diseases are currently impeded. A 454-based whole genome shotgun sequence has been assem...
Prochnik, S
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Marri, PR
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Desany, B
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Rabinowitch, PD
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Kodira, C
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Fauquet, Claude M.
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Tohme, Joseph M.
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Rodríguez, F.
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Mohiuddin, M
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Harkins, T
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Rokhsar, DS
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Rounsley, S
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[The cassava genome: current progress, future directions]
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The cassava genome: current progress, future directions
Cassava is an important energy source in the diets of millions of people in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. It is a key subsistence crop, and its industrial uses are steadily growing. In spite of its economic and social relevance, relatively little investment has been made for rese...
Ceballos, Hernán
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Kulakow, Peter
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Hershey, Clair
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[Cassava breeding: current status, bottlenecks and the potential of biotechnology tools]
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Cassava breeding: current status, bottlenecks and the potential of biotechnology tools
In this study, host-specific forms of the blast pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) were characterised from distinct cropping locations using a combination of molecular and biological assays. Finger millet blast populations in East Africa revealed a continuous genetic variatio...
Takan, J.P.
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Chipili, J.
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Muthumeenakshi, S.
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Talbot, N.J.
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Manyasa, E.O.
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Bandyopadhyay, Ranajit
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Sere, Y.
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Nutsugah, S.K.
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Talhinhas, P.
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Hossain, M.A.
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Brown, A.
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Sreenivasaprasad, S.
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[Magnaporthe oryzae populations adapted to finger millet and rice exhibit distinctive patterns of genetic diversity, sexuality and host interaction]
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Magnaporthe oryzae populations adapted to finger millet and rice exhibit distinctive patterns of genetic diversity, sexuality and host interaction
The genetic diversity of 219 accessions of Guinea yam germplasm from Benin, Congo, Côte d’ Ivoire,Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Togo was accessed using 15 microsatelliteloci. High diversity of 0.677 was found among the accessions. An allelic average of 8.06 andpolymor...
Plantain and banana (Musa spp. AAB and AAA groups) are perennial giant herbs of the tropics which develop parthenocarpic fruits. At least three independent but complementary dominant genes control vegetative parthenocarpy in Musa. One of these genes, P1 segregates in euploid hybrid progenies deri...
Ortiz, R.
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Vuylsteke, D.R.
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[Effect of the parthenocarpy gene P1 and ploidy in bunch and fruit traits of plantain and banana hybrids]
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Effect of the parthenocarpy gene P1 and ploidy in bunch and fruit traits of plantain and banana hybrids
One of the objectives of the cassava-breeding project at CIAT is the identification of clones with special root quality characteristics. A large number of self-pollinations have been made in search of useful recessive traits. During 2006 harvests an S1 plant produced roots that stained brownish-r...
Ceballos, H.
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Sánchez, T.
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Morante, N
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Fregene, Martin A.
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Dufour, D.L.
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Smith, A.M.
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Denyer, K
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Pérez Velásquez, Juan Carlos
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Calle, F
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Mestres, C
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[Discovery of an amylose-free starch mutant in cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz)]
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Discovery of an amylose-free starch mutant in cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz)
Cassava (Manihot esculenta) is an allogamous, vegetatively propagated, Neotropical crop that is also widely grown in tropical Africa and Southeast Asia. To elucidate genetic diversity and differentiation in the crop's primary and secondary centers of diversity, and the forces shaping them, SSR ma...
Fregene, Martin A.
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Suarez, MC
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Mkumbira, J.
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Kulembeka, H.P.
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Ndedya, E
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Kulaya, A
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Mitchel, S
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Gullberg, U
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Rosling, H.
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Dixon, Alfred G.O.
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Dean, R.
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Kresovich, S
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[Simple sequence repeat marker diversity in cassava landraces: Genetic diversity and differentiation in an asexually propagated crop]
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Simple sequence repeat marker diversity in cassava landraces: Genetic diversity and differentiation in an asexually propagated crop