(Press-News.org) Wild banana relatives of mainland Southeast Asia reveal hidden diversity and the urgent need to preserve nature’s genetic resources for future crops
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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0307592
Article Title: Musa species in mainland Southeast Asia: From wild to domesticate
Author Countries: France, U.S., Vietnam, Lao P.D.R., China
Funding: This study was funded by the Sud Expert Plantes Développement Durable programme through the DivBa SEP2D project (AAP3-97) and the BforBB open science project supported by the Agropolis Fondation under the reference ID 1605-011 through the “Investissements d’avenir” programme (Labex Agro:ANR-10-LABX-0001-01). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, interpretation of results, the decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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Wild banana relatives of mainland Southeast Asia reveal hidden diversity and the urgent need to preserve nature’s genetic resources for future crops
2024-10-02
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