Achieving Sustainable Cultivation of Bananas: Germplasm and Genetic Improvement - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1786763443 ISBN 13 : 9781786763440

Editeur : Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Limited, 2020

Synopsis

Volume 2 begins with a discussion of progress in identifying and broadening the genetic base for Musa species. This provides the foundation for Parts 3 and 4 which review advances in both conventional and recent molecular breeding techniques and their application in producing improved varieties.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Dr Gert Kema is Professor of Tropical Plant Pathology at the Laboratory for Phytopathology of Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands. He leads several international banana research programs, including interdisciplinary research projects and public-private-partnerships focusing on Panama disease and black Sigatoka. 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 Theme 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.

Mike Smith has 43 years of research experience with tropical/subtropical fruit and root crops. Our laboratory has specialised in applied research with an emphasis on strong industry partnerships. We have successfully developed in vitro propagation techniques to multiply elite varieties of banana, ginger, pineapple, papaya, avocado, custard apple and macadamia, as well as further consolidating our work with the genetic improvement of pineapple, ginger and banana. Major achievements with our banana research program include:
- 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.
- establishment of a Quality Banana Approved Nursery (QBAN) Scheme, via a network of commercial tissue culture laboratories and nurseries, whereby growers can have access to clean, uniform planting material with improved productivity.
- resolution of two major problems in commercial banana tissue culture (eg. virus transmission and somaclonal variation) so that growers can be assured the material they purchase is free from disease and true-to-type.
- development of Cavendish bananas with improved tolerance to abiotic and biotic stresses, including Fusarium wilt, using mutation breeding.
- development of robust and reliable banana transformation systems.

Emeritus professor of plant cytogenetics at Wageningen University, Laboratory of Genetics, Wageningen, the Netherlands. I focus on structure and behavior of plant chromosomes in relation to gamete sterility and unbalanced chromosomes segregation. Research projects are mostly related to plant breeding programs and deal with altered chromosome behavior in meiosis. In addition, I have worked on chromosome differentiation using high-resolution fluorescence in situ hybridization. The outcome of this research is part of comparative genomics projects of Arabidopsis and several crop species.

After graduating in Montreal University in 2006 (M.Sc. Bio-informatique), Valentin worked as a bioinformatics research engineer in the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS, LIRMM) in Montpellier on the phylogeny.fr project for 2 years. Then he joined CIRAD and participated to the GNPAnnot project and developed the Chado Controller to manage genome manual annotations.

He first joined Bioversity in 2010, as a bioinformatics specialist to mainly work on the GreenPhyl database within the Commodities programme for a 18 month contract and then returned to CIRAD.

After a 6 months contract in CIRAD, he came back to Bioversity in January 2012 till today to continue his work on gene families in GreenPhyl 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. His main skills are web user interfaces, computation pipelines, algorithms, databases (CHADO) and CMS (Drupal).

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Bananas are the world's most exported and valuable fruit. However, banana production faces a number of challenges, including a very narrow genetic base for commercial cultivation which leaves the crop highly vulnerable to a range of diseases and other stresses. There is an urgent need to improve existing and develop new varieties which retain key yield and quality characteristics whilst improving resistance to both biotic and abiotic stresses. These issues are addressed in this volume.

The book begins with a discussion of progress in identifying and broadening the genetic base for Musa species. Chapters review ways of classifying banana cultivars, exploiting current collections of germplasm and collecting and evaluating wild Musa species and landraces. This provides the foundation for Parts 3 and 4 which review advances in both conventional and recent molecular breeding techniques and their application in producing improved varieties. Topics include improving fertility and other traits in Cavendish, developing hybrid varieties as well as techniques for genetic improvement.

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 a companion volume: Achieving sustainable cultivation of bananas Volume 1: Cultivation techniques.

Dr Gert Kema is a Senior Scientist at Plant Research International and Professor in Tropical Phytopathology at Wageningen University, the Netherlands. He heads several international research programs on banana, focussing in particular on Panama disease and black Sigatoka.

Professor André Drenth is Professor of Tropical Plant Pathology and theme 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, Australia. He initiated and led the Banana Plant Protection Programme set up to protect Australia's banana industry from a range of pests and diseases.

À propos de la deuxième de couverture

"The editors have assembled a team of leading researchers in banana germplasm and genetic improvement with many years of expertise. This comprehensive compilation takes into account the important and diverse factors affecting long-term banana production sustainability. It will be an important resource for the research community but will be of value to producers and consumers as well."Dr Brian Irish, USDA-ARS PGITRU, USA

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 of progress in 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 a companion volume: Achieving sustainable cultivation of bananas Volume 1: Cultivation techniques.

Dr Gert Kema is Professor of Tropical Plant Pathology at the Laboratory for Phytopathology of Wageningen University, The Netherlands. He leads several international banana research programs, including interdisciplinary research projects and public-private-partnerships focusing on Panama disease and black Sigatoka. 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 Theme 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Limited
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1786763443
• ISBN 13: 9781786763440
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 380
• Éditeur: Drenth Prof André
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible