The introduction and market potential of exotic black Sigatoka resistant cooking banana cultivars in West Africa

Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 141-152

  Ferris, R S B ^a   Ortiz, R ^b   Chukwu, U ^c   Akalumhe, Y O ^c   Akele, S ^d   Ubi, A ^c   Vuylsteke, D ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE   (Uganda)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE   (Nigeria)

^d Nigerian Agip Oil Company   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANANA CULTIVATION;

AFRICA, (WEST);

EID: 0031400050     PISSN: 00498599     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Akalumhe, Y. O.: Economics of marketing and postharvest losses of plantain in southeastern Nigeria. Unpublished MSc Thesis. University of Ibadan, Nigeria. 85 pp, 1994.
2. Akele, S. A., N. U. Isirimah, A. A. Brisibe and R. Ortiz: The role of extension services for the successful introduction of new Musa cultivars in southeastern Nigeria. MUSAfrica 10:2-3, 1996.
3. Anonymous: Annual Report. Serere Agricultural Research Station, Uganda, 1962.
4. Dubois, M., K. A. Gillies, J. K. Hamilton, P. A. Rebers and F. Smith: Colourimetric method for determination of sugars and related substances. Anal. Chem. 23:350-356, 1956.
5. Ferris, R. S. B., T. Adeniji, U. Chukwu, Y. O. Akalumhe, D. Vuylsteke and R. Ortiz: Postharvest quality of plantains and cooking bananas. In Plantain and banana, production and research in West and Central Africa. R. Ortiz and M.O. Akoroda (Eds). IITA, Ibadan, Nigeria. pp. 15-21, 1996.
6. Ferris, R. S. B., S. Akele, Y. O. Akalumhe and A. Ubi: Consumer's acceptance of ABB cooking bananas in southeastern Nigeria. MusAfrica 5: 9-11, 1994.
7. Ferris, R. S. B, G. K. Hotsonyame, H. Wainwright and A. K. Thompson: The effects of genotype, damage and environmental conditions on the postharvest life of plantain. Tropical Agriculture (Trinidad) 70: 45-50, 1993.
8. Ferris, R. S. B., H. Wainwright and A. K. Thompson: Effect of maturity, damage and humidity on the ripening of plantain and cooking banana. ACIAR Proc. 50: 434-437, 1994.
9. Hahn, S. K., D. Vuylsteke, and R. Swennen: First reactions to ABB cooking bananas distributed in southeastern Nigeria. In Sigatoka leaf spot diseases of bananas. R.A. Fullerton and R.H. Stover (Eds). INIBAP, Montpellier, France. pp. 306-315, 1990.
10. Mobambo, K. N., F. Gauhl, D. Vuylsteke, R. Ortiz, C. Pasberg-Gauhl, and R. Swennen: Yield loss in plantain from black sigatoka leaf spot and field performance of resistant hybrids. Field Crops Research 35: 35-42, 1993.
11. Ortiz, R., D. Vuylsteke, J. Okoro, C. Pasberg-Gauhl and F. Gauhl: MET-1 Multisite evaluation of hybrid Musa germplasm at IITA stations. MusAfrica, 4, 6-7, 1994.
12. Speijer, P. R., C. S. Gold, E. B. Karamura, and I. N. Kashaija: Banana weevil and nematode distribution patterns in highland banana systems in Uganda: preliminary results from a diagnostic survey. African Crop Science Proceedings 1: 285-289, 1994.
13. PBIP (Plantain and Banana Improvement Programme): Annual Report 1992 of Plantain and Banana Improvement Program. Institute of Tropical Agriculture. 207 pp., 1993.
14. Vuylsteke, D., R. Ortiz, C. Pasberg-Gauhl, F. Gauhl, C. Gold, R. S. B. Ferris and P. Speijer: Plantain and Banana Research at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture. Hort Science 28: 874-875, 970-971, 1993.
15. Vuylsteke, D., R. Ortiz, R. S. B. Ferris and J. Crouch: Plantain Improvement. Plant Breeding Reviews, 14, 267-320, 1997.