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Taro networks and seed systems: promoting the use of diversity for crop improvement

Article number

1118_7

Pages

43 – 50

Language

English

Abstract

Publication

XXIX International Horticultural Congress on Horticulture: Sustaining Lives, Livelihoods and Landscapes (IHC2014): International Symposium on Root and Tuber Crops: Sustaining Lives and Livelihoods into the Future

Authors

T.L. Iosefa, D. Hunter, M. Taylor, V.S. Tuia

Keywords

crop improvement, breeding, edible aroid, genebank, network, diversity

Full text

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2016.1118.7

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5. Optimization of aeroponic technology for future integration in quality potato seed production systems in tropical environments

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6. Mining a ‘Georgia Jet’ sweetpotato root transcriptome dataset for nutrient-responsive genes related to root system architecture variability and storage root formation

A.Q. Villordon | N. Firon

7. Taro networks and seed systems: promoting the use of diversity for crop improvement

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8. Genetic diversity analysis in greater yam (Dioscorea alata L.) native to India using morphological and molecular markers

M.N. Sheela | P.V. Abhilash | K.I. Asha | G. Arnau

9. Evaluating effects of environmental and physical factors on sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas)

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12. Potential yields of industrial sweetpotatoes using cut seed pieces planted at various dates

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13. Influence of mucuna fallow crop on selected soil properties, weed suppression and taro yields in Taveuni, Fiji

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14. Diversity of roots and tubers cultivated in traditional chagras from the Colombian Amazon

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15. Optimising plant bed performance through adaptive research with the Australian sweetpotato industry

16. Green manure crops for integrated pest management in upland taro fields in Hawaii

S.C. Miyasaka | A. Ortiz | B.S. Sipes | A.S. Arakaki

17. QPCR testing seed potato tubers for pathogens – what value for potato seed certification?

R.S. Tegg | C.R. Wilson

18. Survey on leaf blight of taro (Phytophthora colocasiae Raciborski) in Nagaland

N. Pongener | L. Daiho

19. Using genotyping by sequencing (GBS) to identify loci in Colocasiae esculenta linked to Phytophthora colocasiae resistance

20. Biochemical relationships involving multiple virus infections, dry matter and selected nutritional attributes in orange fleshed sweetpotato

S.M. Kiarie | L.S. Karanja | M. Obonyo | F.N. Wachira

21. Onion (Allium cepa L.) bulbs are most sensitive to base plate impacts

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22. Sweet potato cultivar and harvest date influence on Cylas formicarius damage

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23. Minimising losses in radish (Raphanus sativus) at harvest due to splitting by manipulation of water availability during growth

R.A. Lockley | I.G. Grove | J.M. Monaghan

24. Effects of ethylene and 1-methylcyclopropene on sweetpotato storage root quality

P. Pankomera | J.A. Heyes | S.L. Lewthwaite | N. Roskruge

25. Investigating factors affecting postharvest splitting in radish (Raphanus sativus)

R.A. Lockley | I.G. Grove | J.M. Monaghan

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28. Application of calcium and boron does not reduce incidence of brown fleck in potato tubers

S. Harper

29. Nutrient efficient genotypes in cassava: scope to substitute for chemical fertilizers and in C sequestration

K. Susan John | S.U. Shanida Beegum | M.N. Sheela | G. Suja

30. Characterization of native starches from Amazonian roots and tubers

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31. In vitro propagation of endemic wild edible yams of Western Ghats – the hotspot of global biodiversity and its conservation in India

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32. Modelling future potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) production in Tasmania and Kenya

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33. New sweetpotato cultivars to meet market needs

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