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The Improvement and Testing of Musa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292
Musa Spp
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 29

Musa Spp

The guidelines are divided into two parts. The first part makes general recommendations on how best to move Musa germplasm. The second part covers the important pests and diseases of quarantine concern. The information given on a particular pest or disease is not exhaustive but concentrates on those aspects that are most relevant to quarantine.

Evaluating Bananas
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 142

Evaluating Bananas

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Annual report
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 73

Annual report

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Banana Improvement
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 62

Banana Improvement

Banana research needs and opportunities; Overview of the banana improvement project; Portfolio of projects; Summary and recommendations.

Securing the Harvest
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 232

Securing the Harvest

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2001
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  • Publisher: CABI

Improved food security, led by increased productivity among Africa's many small-scale farmers, has been the aim of significant national and international effort in recent decades. It has proved to be one of the most critical challenges facing humankind. This book grew out of a two-year exploration conducted by the food security theme of The Rockefeller Foundation focusing on the potential for crop genetic improvement to contribute to food security among rural populations in Africa. It provides a critical assessment of the ways in which recent breakthroughs in biotechnology, participatory plant breeding, and seed systems can be broadly employed in developing and delivering more productive crop varieties in Africa's diverse agricultural environments. It also presents an analysis of current plant breeding and biotechnology strategies for the key crops in Africa including: maize, sorghum, cowpea, rice, and cassava. The book will appeal to plant breeders, biotechnologists, and seed distributors as well as policy-makers in the area of agricultural development.

Banana: Genomics and Transgenic Approaches for Genetic Improvement
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 345

Banana: Genomics and Transgenic Approaches for Genetic Improvement

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-09-08
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  • Publisher: Springer

Bananas and plantains are among the most important food and cash crops in the world. They are cultivated in more than 135 countries, across the tropics and subtropics, with an annual global production of ca. 130 million metric tonnes. Though bananas are one of the most important components of food security in many developing countries, banana production is threatened by both abiotic and biotic stresses. These include a wide range of diseases and pests, such as bunchy top virus, burrowing nematodes, black Sigatoka or black leaf streak, Fusarium wilt, etc. In recent years, considerable progress has been made and several biotechnological and genomic tools have been employed to help understand a...

Efficient Screening Techniques to Identify Mutants with TR4 Resistance in Banana
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 191

Efficient Screening Techniques to Identify Mutants with TR4 Resistance in Banana

Bananas are a staple food for over 500 million people and are also an important cash crop. Fusarium wilt, caused by the fungus Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense, is one of the most destructive diseases of banana globally. Since the 1990s, an aggressive variant of this fungus, called Tropical Race 4 (TR4), severely affected banana plantations in Southeast Asia from where it spread to other continents, including Latin America, where the global banana export market is primarily centred. TR4 is a soil borne pathogen making the disease difficult to contain. The Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture implemented a Coordinated Research Project (CRP) ‘Efficient Screenin...

Iita Research 11
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 28

Iita Research 11

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: Unknown
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  • Publisher: IITA

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