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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

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Musa species in mainland Southeast Asia: From wild to domesticate

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Musa balbisiana growing in Vietnam, a wild banana species with some domestication traits.

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Credit: Picture by CIRAD, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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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