ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE CULTIVATION OF BANANAS VOLUME 2 : GERMPLASM AND GENETIC IMPROVEMENT
Language: English
Published by Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, 2020
Series: Book 91 of 98 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
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- Title
- ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE CULTIVATION OF BANANAS VOLUME 2 : GERMPLASM AND GENETIC IMPROVEMENT
- Author
- PROF ANDRE DRENTH,DR MIKE SMITH,DR MICHAEL PILLAY,DR FAJARUDIN AHMAD,DR PETER M. BOURKE,DR HENK SCHOUTEN,DR HUGO A. VOLKAERT,PROF GERT KEMA,EMERITUS PROF. HANS DE JONG
- Publisher
- Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing
- Publication year
- 2020
- Condition
- Brand New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1786763443
- ISBN 13
- 9781786763440
- Series
- Book 91 of 98: Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
"…provides a good overview of the status of genetic improvement of banana, highlighting both the challenges and potential of ensuring successful cultivation…making this volume a comprehensive foundation of knowledge on which future banana improvement strategies can be built." (Book Review Published in Chronica Horticulturae – Dr Karin Hannweg, ARC-ISTC, South Africa)
Despite bananas being the world’s most exported and valuable fruit, banana production faces a number of challenges, primarily the extremely narrow genetic base currently available for commercial cultivation which increases the rate of vulnerability to diseases and other stresses. The sector faces increasing pressure to improve existing varieties, as well as to develop new varieties which retain key yield and quality characteristics and improved resistance to abiotic and biotic stresses.
Achieving sustainable cultivation of bananas Volume 2: Germplasm and genetic improvement offers an authoritative discussion on the progress of identifying and broadening the genetic base for Musa species. This collection reviews the current conventional and molecular breeding techniques for breeding new varieties of banana, as well as providing coverage on improving traits in Cavendish.
With its distinguished editors and international range of expert authors, Achieving sustainable cultivation of bananas Volume 2: Germplasm and genetic improvement will be a standard reference for university and other researchers in tropical fruit science, government and other agencies supporting banana cultivation, as well as commercial banana growers and retailers. This title is accompanied by two companion volumes: Achieving sustainable cultivation of bananas Volume 1: Cultivation techniques and Achieving sustainable cultivation of bananas Volume 3: Diseases and pests.
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About the Author
Dr Gert H. J. Kema is Professor of Phytopathology and chair at the Laboratory for Phytopathology of Wageningen University, The Netherlands. He initiated and coordinated several international banana research programs focusing on Fusarium wilt of banana and black Sigatoka as well as interdisciplinary research projects and public-private-partnerships on other perennial crops. He is a cofounder of several spin-off companies focusing on banana improvement, disease management and bioprocessing.
Dr André Drenth is Professor in Tropical Plant Pathology and Program Leader for crop protection in the Centre for Horticultural Science at the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI), at the University of Queensland. He leads several projects on tropical plant diseases and he initiated and led a national Banana Plant Protection Programme set up to protect Australia’s banana industry from the impact of a range of pests and diseases.
Dr Mike Smith has 43 years of research experience with tropical/subtropical fruit and root crops. His laboratory has had great success over the years, including the establishment of one of the world’s major in vitro collections of Musa germplasm and, concomitantly, the introduction, multiplication, distribution and evaluation of new, disease-resistant banana varieties from breeding programs around the world.
Dr Hans de Jong is Emeritus professor of plant cytogenetics at Wageningen University, Laboratory of Genetics, Wageningen, the Netherlands. His research focus is on the structure and behaviour of plant chromosomes in relation to gamete sterility and unbalanced chromosomes segregation.
Dr Valentin Guignon is a Bioinformatics Specialist at Bioversity International. He works closely with the GreenPhyl database and is also involved in the Musa Germplasm Information System (MGIS), Banana Genome Hub (BGH), Tripal Project and the Breeding API. Valentin has mainly worked on the Banana and Cocoa genomes and participated to their sequencing.
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