Modern plant biotechnology as a strategy in addressing climate change and attaining food security

TIK Munaweera, NU Jayawardana… - Agriculture & Food …, 2022 - Springer
Global warming causes a range of negative impacts on plants especially due to rapid
changes in temperatures, alterations of rainfall patterns, floods or drought conditions, and …

Bioactive potential of fruit and vegetable wastes

V Coman, BE Teleky, L Mitrea, GA Martău… - Advances in food and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Fruits and vegetables are essential for human nutrition, delivering a substantial proportion of
vitamins, minerals, and fibers in our daily diet. Unfortunately, half the fruits and vegetables …

Telomere-to-telomere gapless chromosomes of banana using nanopore sequencing

C Belser, FC Baurens, B Noel, G Martin… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Long-read technologies hold the promise to obtain more complete genome assemblies and
to make them easier. Coupled with long-range technologies, they can reveal the architecture …

Prospects of banana waste utilization in wastewater treatment: A review

T Ahmad, M Danish - Journal of environmental management, 2018 - Elsevier
This review article explores utilization of banana waste (fruit peels, pseudo-stem, trunks, and
leaves) as precursor materials to produce an adsorbent, and its application against …

Origin and evolution of the triploid cultivated banana genome

X Li, S Yu, Z Cheng, X Chang, Y Yun, M Jiang… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Most fresh bananas belong to the Cavendish and Gros Michel subgroups. Here, we report
chromosome-scale genome assemblies of Cavendish (1.48 Gb) and Gros Michel (1.33 Gb) …

Multidisciplinary perspectives on banana (Musa spp.) domestication

X Perrier, E De Langhe, M Donohue… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Original multidisciplinary research hereby clarifies the complex geodomestication pathways
that generated the vast range of banana cultivars (cvs). Genetic analyses identify the wild …

Banana by-products: an under-utilized renewable food biomass with great potential

BS Padam, HS Tin, FY Chye, MI Abdullah - Journal of food science and …, 2014 - Springer
Banana (Musaceae) is one of the world's most important fruit crops that is widely cultivated
in tropical countries for its valuable applications in food industry. Its enormous by-products …

The evolutionary ecology of clonally propagated domesticated plants

D McKey, M Elias, B Pujol, A Duputié - New Phytologist, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
While seed‐propagated crops have contributed many evolutionary insights, evolutionary
biologists have often neglected clonally propagated crops. We argue that widespread …

The vulnerability of bananas to globally emerging disease threats

A Drenth, G Kema - Phytopathology®, 2021 - Am Phytopath Society
Banana cultivation has increased significantly over the last century to meet the growing
demand for this popular fruit. Originating in Southeast Asia, bananas are now produced in> …

A draft Musa balbisiana genome sequence for molecular genetics in polyploid, inter- and intra-specific Musa hybrids

MW Davey, R Gudimella, JA Harikrishna, LW Sin… - BMC genomics, 2013 - Springer
Background Modern banana cultivars are primarily interspecific triploid hybrids of two
species, Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana, which respectively contribute the A-and B …