Banana Improvement

Jain, S.M. and R. Swennen (eds.)

Banana Improvement

Cellular, Molecular Biology and Induced Mutations

Year of publication 2004

Pages 400

Author Jain, S.M. and R. Swennen (eds.)

Product type Book (stand-alone)

ISBN 1578083400

Edition 1

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Synopsis (short abstract) Banana and plantain are among the world’s major food crops, and considered as the poor man’s fruit crop in tropical and subtropical countries. The world’s total banana and plantain production ranks 5th after cereals, and there is still much scope for yield improvement. This book contains the results obtained during FAO/IAEA Coordinated Research Project (CRP) entitled “Cellular biology and biotechnology including mutation techniques for creation of new useful banana genotypes”. In 1996 the Belg ian Administration for Development Cooperation (BADC), now known as Directorate-General for Development Cooperation agreed to fund this CRP. Besides CRP results, it contains several review papers, with the aim of providing state of the art information on a number of biotechnological tools for adoption by breeders and molecular biologists to obtain Musa varieties with desirable characters in a more rapid and efficient way. These include cryopreservation and somatic embryogenesis to allow maintena nce and propagation of Musa germplasm; induced mutagenesis; and somaclonal variation and genetic engineering to generate genetic variation. Screening techniques were developed to obtain disease (Fusarium wilt, black Sigatoka) and nematode resistant plants, while induction of mutations resulted in several improved clones with characters such as reduced height, earliness, large fruit size, and tolerance to black Sigatoka disease. DNA flow cytometry enabled ploidy and the genome size of Musa genoty pes to be determined and was also used to monitor cytochimera dissociation and chromosomal stability, while, molecular marker technology was integrated into Musa breeding programs in order to allow researchers to access, transfer and combine genes at a rate and with a precision not previously possible.

Language English

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