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    Improvement of bananas for black sigatoka and Panama disease resistance through genetic manipulation

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    Date
    1994
    Author
    Smet, K. de
    Panis, B.
    Sagi, L.
    Cammue, B.
    Swennen, R.
    Type
    Journal Article
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    Abstract/Description
    Bananas are a staple food in Eastern Africa, with 25.3% of the total world production. The production is, however, threatened by the presence of several diseases, of which the fungal diseases black sigatoka and Panama disease are the most important. With the development of embryogenic cell suspension cultures, the isolation of protoplasts there from and their successful regeneration, an invaluable vegetative material for genetic manipulation of bananas became available. The discovery of new types of antifungal proteins (ATP's) and the cloning of their encoding genes provide a source of resistance to fungal diseases that can be introduced into plant cells by genetic engineering.
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    https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12478/4576
    IITA Subjects
    Food Security; Banana; Plant Diseases; Genetic Improvement
    Agrovoc Terms
    Bananas; Genetic Manipulation; Panama Disease
    Regions
    Acp; Africa; Europe; East Africa
    Countries
    Belgium; Hungary; Tanzania
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    • Journal and Journal Articles5283
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