In recent years (1990-1995) the cassava area in Vietnam has remained stable, or has increased slightly in the south due to the new demand for cassava roots used for starch processing. Therefore, our cassava breeding program, in collaboration with CIAT, has put a high priority on developing new va...
Las diferencias observadas en el comportamiento de los genotipos bajo niveles de saturación de Al+3 pueden ser debidas a diferencias en los posibles mecanismos de tolerancia que operan en estas líneas tolerantes.
Reddy, Belum V.S.
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Rangel, Andrés Felipe
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[Genotype (G) and G x environment (E) interactions in sorghum in acid soils of the Oriental Llanos of Colombia]
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Genotype (G) and G x environment (E) interactions in sorghum in acid soils of the Oriental Llanos of Colombia
Manihot esculenta Cassava pest problems in Africa have changed dramatically over the last century. Rapidly expanding production and waves of exotic pests have created evolving cassava agroecosystems with changing production constraints. Cassava plant protection activities in Africa began with res...
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...
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
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...
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)
A strategy to control the black sigatoka disease of plantain (Musa spp, AAB group) in Africa, targeting the incorporation of durable host plant resistance, was initiated at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA). The commonly accepted intractability of plantain to genetic impr...
Vuylsteke, D.R.
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Swennen, R.
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[Development and performance of tetraploid hybrids of plantain (Musa spp., AAB group) with black sigatoka resistance]
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Development and performance of tetraploid hybrids of plantain (Musa spp., AAB group) with black sigatoka resistance