Fruit quality evaluation of plantains, plantain hybrids, and cooking bananas

Postharvest Biology and Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 73-81

  Ferris, R Shaun B ^a   Ortiz, Rodomiro ^b   Vuylsteke, Dirk ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE   (Uganda)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cross breeding; Fruit quality; Market potential; Musa spp. L.; Polyploidy; Postharvest; Selection

Indexed keywords

COOKING; CROSS BREEDING; DISEASE DETECTION; GERMPLASM; HYBRID; MUSA; MYCOSPHAERELLA FIJIENSIS; PLANT PRODUCT; POLYPLOIDY; QUALITY CONTROL; TRIPLOIDY; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 0033005493     PISSN: 09255214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-5214(98)00067-2     Document Type: Article

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