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Assessment of East African highland banana (AAA) and plantain (AAB) cultivars in Asia for resistance to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense (Foc) tropical race (TR) 4

Grant No

Assessment of East African highland banana and plantain cultivars in Asia

Project Description

This project with Bioversity International in collaboration with the Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences of China and partners in the Philippines, evaluated 7 East African Highland bananas, and 7 plantain cultivars in the international collection, (managed by Bioversity and held at the International Transit Centre, Belgium) for their reaction to the pathogen Fusarium oxysporum (Foc TR4). The project found that all the plantain cultivars and all but 3 of the bananas showed some resistance.

Institute Name

Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, Italy

Institute Country

Italy

List of Countries

Philippines

Crops

Crop	Seed or Veg type	Acc collected	Acc regenerated	Acc sent to CG	Acc introduced to genebank	Acc sent to Svalbard
Banana		0	0	0	0	0

Program Name

Global System Project

Donor

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Start Date

1st of April 2010

End Date

31st of March 2012

Status

Completed