Banana and plantain breeding

Autor: Rodomiro Ortiz, Dirk Vuylsteke, R. S. B. Ferris
Rok vydání: 1995
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Zdroj: Bananas and Plantains ISBN: 9789401043175
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-0737-2_5
Popis: 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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