Banana and plantain breeding
Despite considerable efforts of Musa improvement programmes, banana and plantain production still depends upon a limited number of landraces selected by man from the natural germplasm. Inability to replace land-races by cultivars obtained through cross-breeding creates the increased risk of epidemic...
| Autores principales: | , , |
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| Formato: | Capítulo de libro |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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1995
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| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/100889 |
| Sumario: | Despite considerable efforts of Musa improvement programmes, banana and plantain production still depends upon a limited number of landraces selected by man from the natural germplasm. Inability to replace land-races by cultivars obtained through cross-breeding creates the increased risk of epidemic disease among genetically similar cultivars. Consequently, improvement programmes have concentrated almost exclusively on resistance breeding. |
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