Suitability of existing Musa morphological descriptors to characterize East African highland 'matooke' bananas.

ABSTRACT: Morphological traits are commonly used for characterizing plant genetic resources. Germplasm characterization should be based on distinctly identifiable, stable and heritable traits that are expressed consistently and are easy to distinguish by the human eye. Characterization and documentation of a representative sample of East African highland bananas (Lujugira-Mutika subgroup) was carried out following an internationally accepted standard protocol for bananas. Eleven cultivars were characterized using an existing set of minimum descriptors (31 qualitative and quantitative traits) with the aim of determining stable descriptors and the ability of these descriptors to distinguish among East African highland banana cultivars. There was variation in stability of these descriptors within culti

SUBMITTER: Batte M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7705172 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature