GM
Banana
Current
Research to Improve Bananas in the Philippines.
Research
|
Person(s)
involved
|
Implementing
Agency
|
Development
of banana bunchy top virus (BBTV) resistance in banana
|
V.
M. Aquino
|
University
of the Philippines Los Baños and the Institute of Plant
Breeding (UPLB-IPB)
|
Biotechnology-assisted
development of bunchy top virus resistance in banana by mutation
breeding
|
O.
P. Damasco
|
UPLB-IPB
|
Fingerprinting
of Philippine banana germplasm
|
F.
S. dela Cruz
|
UPLB-IPB
|
Somatic
embryogenesis/ organogenesis in banana (Musa spp.) and calamansi
|
L.
Pateña
|
UPLB-IPB
|
Development
of plant growth enhancers and microbial antagonists of fungal
pathogens in banana and papaya
|
A.
D. Talens
|
UPLB
and the National Crop Protection Center (NCPC)
|
Use
of protoplast fusion and somaclonal variation in banana cultivar
development
|
T.
M. Espino
|
UPLB
and Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (BIOTECH)
|
|
Related
Topics:
Summary
Report on the Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/GM Crops
- [View
the 2004 report]
Transgenic
Crops - [Click Here]
Extensive
Study on Bt Cotton - [Click
Here]
Download
the complete copy of the ISAAA Briefs on Global Status/Review of
GM Crops - [Click
Here]
SciDev.Net's
dossier on GM crops - [Click
here]
Global
Status of Approved Genetically Modified Plants - [Click
here] |