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Filtering by: Institution Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Research Repository Creator Berhanu, Admas Creator Biswas, Manosh K. Type Article Keyword Climate adaptation Keyword Domestication

2019

Journal article

Enset in Ethiopia: a poorly characterized but resilient starch staple.

Enset (Ensete ventricosum, Musaceae) is an African crop that currently provides the staple food for approx. 20 million Ethiopians. Whilst wild enset grows over much of East and Southern Africa and the genus extends across Asia to China, it has only ever been domesticated in the Ethiopian Highlands. Here, smallholder...

Borrell, James S. ; Biswas, Manosh K. ; Goodwin, Mark ; Blomme, Guy ; Schwarzacher, Trude …
Domestication, Sustainable agriculture, Germplasm collections, False banana, Ensete ventricosum, Pests and pathogens, Biodiversity, Climate adaptation, Biotic and abiotic resistance, Crop wild relatives (CWRs), Food security, and Tropical crop ecology