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    Banana and plantain breeding

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    Date
    1995
    Author
    Ortiz, R.
    Ferris, R.S.B.
    Vuylsteke, D.
    Type
    Book Chapter
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    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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    https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12478/5572
    IITA Subjects
    Food Security; Banana; Plantain; Plant Breeding; Plant Genetic Resources
    Agrovoc Terms
    Bananas; Plantains; Breeding; Genetics
    Regions
    Africa; West Africa
    Countries
    Nigeria
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