Browsing School of Agricultural Sciences (SAS) by Subject "Banana sterility"
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Promising and failed breeding techniques for overcoming sterility and increasing seed set in bananas (Musa spp.)
(Horticulturae, 2024)Most banana improvement programs are restricted to using a sub-set of edible landraces for sexual hybridization as the majority are female sterile. This results from an array of factors that work in tandem and lead to ... -
Use of timelapse photography to determine flower opening time and pattern in banana (Musa spp.) for efficient hand pollination
(Scientific Reports, 2021)Sterility and low seed set in bananas is the main challenge to their conventional genetic improvement. The first step to seed set in a banana breeding program depends on pollination at the right time to ensure effective ...