Plantain/Banana breeding program
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International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
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Amah, a regional breeding manager takes some students on a tour around the plantain and banana breeding programs of IITA where Plantain/Banana is bred to support food security. The tissue culture laboratory uses tissue culture techniques to germinate seeds from crosses through embryo germination or rescue to produce a large number of good quality planting materials and also for conservation of genetic resources used for breeding.
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bananas, plantains, breeding programmes, tissue culture, germination, embryo culture, fields, genetic resources conservation, farmers, harvesting