Biotechnological interventions in banana: current knowledge and future prospects.

ABSTRACT: Banana is an important food crop responsible for ensuring food security, nutrition, and employment for a significant portion of the world population. It has fairly broad genetic diversity and is distributed widely across the globe. Due to its socio-economic importance, there has been growing demand for healthy and improved planting materials of banana. In recent years many companies and organizations are working hard to narrow down the gap between demand and supply of quality planting materials. The other challenges includes its susceptibility to adverse environmental conditions, attack of various pests/pathogens and improvement of nutritional quality of bananas. To address these issues, refinement of existing techniques and introduction of new experimental tools are required. However, the

SUBMITTER: Justine AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9676558 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature