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Variability in storage potential of banana shoot cultures under medium term storage conditions

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Shoot cultures of 401 banana clones were conserved under slow growth conditions (16±1°C, 25μmol m−2 s−1). Storage duration-defined as 60% survival time of 20 shoot cultures of a clone-averaged 334 days. However, large differences occurred among the different genomic (sub)groups and even within the same (sub)group. East-African highland bananas and non-plantain AAB bananas can be stored for significantly longer periods. Shoot tip cultures of another 41 banana clones conserved at higher ambient temperature (22±3°C) needed to be subcultured sooner (every 220 days on average).

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Abbreviations

BA:

6-benzyladenine

CIRAD:

Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement

IAA:

indole-3-acetic acid

IBPGR:

International Board for Plant Genetic Resources

INIBAP:

International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain

PPF:

photosynthetic photon flux

QDPI:

Queensland Department of Primary Industries

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  1. INIBAP Musa Germplasm Transit Centre, c/o Laboratory of Tropical Crop Husbandry, Catholic University of Leuven (K.U. Leuven), K. Mercierlaan 92, 3001, Heverlee, Belgium

    Ines Van den houwe, Kris De Smet & Rony Swennen

  2. CIRAD-FLHOR, B.P. 5035, 34032, Montpellier cedex 1, France

    Hugues Tezenas du Montcel

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Van den houwe, I., De Smet, K., du Montcel, H.T. et al. Variability in storage potential of banana shoot cultures under medium term storage conditions. Plant Cell Tiss Organ Cult 42, 269–274 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00029998

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