INIBAP annual report 2004 | INIBAP informe anual 2004
2005
The report brings out (1) the long-standing work on using and conserving diversity of bananas on farms in the Great Lakes zone of Uganda and Tanzania, where millions of people are dependent on a unique set of highly diversified varieties that are endemic to the East African highlands; (2) the technology transfer effort that started in 2001 with the visit of a group of West African farmers, extension workers and researchers to see high density plantain plantations in the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica; (3) the efficiency of a large-scale private enterprise in producing tissue-culture banana plants, providing the foundation for an effective public-private network, launched by INIBAP, that is rehabilitating production of the traditional Filipino cultivar Lakatan after it had been wiped out by a virus epidemic; and (4) efforts in understanding how and under what circumstances another virus, concealed in the banana genome, comes out of hiding and causes a disease that has seriously disrupted the distribution of improved hybrids
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