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Drying banana seeds for ex situ conservation.
The ability of seeds to withstand drying is fundamental to ex situ seed conservation but drying responses are not well known for most wild species including crop wild relatives. We look at drying responses of seeds of Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana, the two primary wild relatives of bananas and...Kallow, Simon ; Garcia Zuluaga, Manuela ; Fanega Sleziak, Natalia ; Nugraha, Bayu ; Mertens, Arne …
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Maximizing genetic representation in seed collections from populations of self and cross-pollinated banana wild relatives.
Kallow, Simon ; Panis, Bart ; Vu Dang, Toan ; Vu Dang, Tuong ; Paofa, Janet …
Genetic diversity, Seed bank, Musa, Conservation strategy, Sampling, and Crop wild relatives
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Regulation of seed germination by diurnally alternating temperatures in disturbance-adapted banana crop wild relatives (Musa acuminata).
Seed conservation of banana crop wild relatives (Musa L. spp.) is limited because of lack of knowledge about their germination ecology. Musa acuminata Colla, the most important banana crop wild relative, is distributed in tropical and subtropical Asian and Pacific rainforests and colonizes disturbed sites. The role of temperature in...