Apparent male fertility in Musa germplasm

HortScience

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1019-1022

  Dumpe, Boniface B ^a   Ortiz, Rodomiro ^a,b  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE   (Nigeria)

^b c/o Lambourn ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

banana; breeding; plantain; pollen stainability

Indexed keywords

MUSA; MUSA X PARADISIACA;

EID: 0030477808     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.31.6.1019     Document Type: Article

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