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Transgenic Banana (Musa Species)

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Transgenic Crops II

Part of the book series: Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry ((AGRICULTURE,volume 47))

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Abstract

The term banana is meant here to cover dessert, cooking and beer bananas as well as plantains. Banana is probably the most important fruit crop in the world with an annual production of more than 80 million tons (Anonymous 1995). In many of the 120, mostly less-developed banana producing countries, banana is locally consumed fresh, prepared by cooking or processed for chips and other food products. In fact, it is (after rice, milk and wheat) the fourth major food source for the Third World and also ranks fourth (after rice, wheat and maize) in terms of gross value of production.

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  1. Laboratory of Tropical Crop Improvement, Catholic University of Leuven, Kard. Mercierlaan 92, 3001, Heverlee, Belgium

    L. Sági, S. Remy, J. B. P. Hernández & R. Swennen

  2. FA Janssens Laboratory of Genetics, Catholic University of Leuven, Kard. Mercierlaan 92, 3001, Heverlee, Belgium

    B. P. A. Cammue

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Sági, L., Remy, S., Hernández, J.B.P., Cammue, B.P.A., Swennen, R. (2001). Transgenic Banana (Musa Species). In: Bajaj, Y.P.S. (eds) Transgenic Crops II. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, vol 47. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56901-2_17

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