Banana - Less Exploited Landraces in India

• Authors : Uma, S.; Saraswathi, M.S.; Backiyarani, S.; Durai, P.; Mustaffa, M.


• Document type : Book


• Year of publication : 2014


• Publisher(s) : National Research Centre for Banana (ICAR)


• Place of publication : Tiruchirappalli, India


• Collection : Technical Bulletin No. 21


• Pages : 51


• Language(s) : English


• Abstract : The indigenous knowledge on Musa landraces is a treasure, on which very little information has been documented. The decline in the number and area under landraces is so alarming that they may face extinction even before their systematic identification, collection, conservation, documentation and let alone its commercial exploitation. Sterility, polyploidy and clonal propagation have led to the narrow genetic base in banana thus making them vulnerable to large number of pests and diseases. This could also be attributed for their limited success in improvement through conventional breeding. The banana landraces along with their wild relatives are a store house of many resistant genes for biotic and abiotic stresses. These parthenocarpic landraces also have the ability to set seeds under controlled conditions and the hybrids of which can be used directly for commercial utilization or as a base material (synthetic/improved diploids) for use in breeding programs. The distribution, description, ethnobotanical values, possible utilities of the lesser exploited landraces are detailed in this book.


• Keywords : DESCRIPTION; INDIA; LOCAL CULTIVARS


• Open access : Yes


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• Musalit document ID : IN200102

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