For many of the develo** world's poorest farmers and food-insecure people, roots, tubers,
bananas and plantain crops (RTBs) serve as a critical source of food, nutrition and cash …

Abstract Banana (Musa spp.), an evergreen perennial crop belonging to the Musaceae
family, is one of the world's most important tropical and subtropical fruits. It is characterized …

Bananas (Musaceae) are one of the world's most common fruit crops and the oldest
medicinal plants that are used to treat a variety of infections. There has been recent interest …

Gender and Trait Preferences for Banana Cultivation and Use in Sub-Saharan Africa: A
Literature Review Understanding trait preferences of different actors in the banana value …

Oligo painting FISH was established to identify all chromosomes in banana (Musa spp.) and
to anchor pseudomolecules of reference genome sequence of Musa acuminata spp …

Bananas (Musa spp.) are one of the most highly consumed fruits globally, grown in the
tropical and sub‐tropical regions. We evaluated 856 Musa accessions from the breeding …

The fungus Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense (FOC), tropical race 4 (TR4), causes
Fusarium wilt of banana, a pandemic that has threatened the cultivation and export trade of …

The continued dispersal of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense Tropical race 4 (Foc TR4), a
quarantine soil-borne pathogen that kills banana, has placed this worldwide industry on …

East African highland bananas (EAHB) were regarded as sterile. Their screening for female
fertility with “Calcutta 4” as male parent revealed that 37 EAHB were fertile. This was the …

Banana (and plantain, Musa spp.), in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), is predominantly grown as
a mixed crop by smallholder farmers in backyards and small farmlands, typically ranging …