Using Growth and Transpiration Phenotyping Under Controlled Conditions to Select Water Efficient Banana Genotypes.

ABSTRACT: Water deficit is one of the world's major constraints in agriculture and will aggravate in the future. Banana (Musa spp.) is an important crop that needs vast amounts of water for optimal production. The International Transit Center of Bioversity International holds the world's biggest collection of banana biodiversity (>1,500 accessions). The long-term aim of this research is to evaluate the potential within this collection for climate smart agricultural usage. Therefore, we developed a phenotyping setup under controlled environmental conditions and we selected 32 representatives of the Musa biodiversity (29 cultivars and 3 wild relatives) for evaluation. The best performing genotypes accumulated six to seven times more biomass than the least performing. Eight genotypes (fiv

SUBMITTER: van Wesemael J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6443892 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature