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Going wild in banana breeding enables Fusarium-resistant hybrids with improved fruit quality.
Nature communications - 5 Mar 2026
Liu Xin, Fu Ning, Li Jia, Xiao Tian-Wen, Zeng Shaohua, Jiang Rong, Wang Xin-Feng, Zhang Hui-Ye, Wei Lei, Lu Lu-Yun, Wang Zheng-Feng, Yan Hai-Fei, Li Lin-Feng, Rouard Mathieu, Ge Xue-Jun, Li Wei-Ming, Huang Hui-Run
Abstract excerpt
Bananas (Musa spp.) are crucial for food security, but modern cultivars derived from few wild species and propagated vegetatively possess low genetic diversity, and weak disease resistance. Identifying new parental lines is therefore essential for banana breeding. Here we show that Musa cheesmanii exhibits high resistance to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense tropical race 4. We cross it with two Musa ABB...
Topics
- Musa
- Fusarium
- Disease Resistance
- Plant Breeding
- Plant Diseases
- Fruit
- Genetic Variation
- Genome, Plant
- China
