Genomic Designing for Biotic Stress Resistant Banana

• Chapter Authors : Backiyarani, S.; Anuradha, C.; Uma, S.


• Document type : Book section


• Year of publication : 2022


• Book title : Genomic Designing for Biotic Stress Resistant Fruit Crops


• Editors : Kole, C.


• Publisher(s) : Springer


• Place of publication : Cham, Switzerland


• ISBN : 978-3-030-91802-6


• Pages : 25-74


• Language(s) : English


• Abstract : Banana and plantains provide nutrition and food security and are the most important traded fruits with export value higher than any other fruit crops. The commercial cultivars are highly vulnerable to various biotic stresses owing to mono-culturing and evolving of new pests and races/isolates/strains causing fluctuation in production. For sustainable production, efforts are being carried out to incorporate the resistance in the background of many commercial cultivars by exploiting the genetic diversity available globally. Irrespective of the reproductive barriers many successful hybrids have been developed. As the tailoring consumer preferable varieties with resistance are a challenge for the breeder, non conventional breeding approaches are also been accomplished. Being a challenging fruit crop for improvement of economically important traits owing to its inherent plant-based constraints like male and female sterility, parthenocarpy, polyploidy it will be a good model crop for any other recalcitrant crops for improvement through normal means. Information on potential sources of resistant genotypes, inheritance of resistance, QTLs, technologies that can be adopted for incorporation of resistance genes without altering the horticulture traits is mandatory in developing resistant varieties. In this chapter, we tried to provide the compendium of banana with respect to biotic resistance breeding by focusing on significance of biotic stresses, genetic resources and their potential for resistance breeding, problems in conventional breeding, strategies followed to develop resistance, application of molecular information in accelerating conventional and molecular breeding program.


• Keywords : DISEASE RESISTANCE; STRESS; PEST RESISTANCE; GENOMICS; PESTS AND DISEASES; FIRST ONLINE


• Open access : Yes


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• Musalit document ID : IN220352

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