Selection and identification of superior banana phenotypes from Turkey
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RESEARCH ARTICLE
Selection and identification of superior banana phenotypes from Turkey Hasan Pinar . Mustafa Bircan . Mustafa Unlu . Cengiz Turkay . Aydin Uzun . Sezai Ercisli . Fatih Hanci
Received: 26 March 2020 / Accepted: 1 September 2020 Ó Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Abstract New banana plantations of Turkey are mostly established with meristem culture-propagated plants because starting materials greatly influence yield and quality in these plantations. This study was conducted to select superior banana clones from Grand Nain, Dwarf Cavendish and Azman cultivars grown in open fields and greenhouses in Turkey. The study also aimed to determine selection efficiency breeding for stem height, number of hands, the number of fruits, bunch weight, fruit weight and fruit length. The selected genotypes exhibited a large variation in yield and related quantitative traits. The genotypes showing the highest yield and quality traits were selected. Although the traits used for selection contributed to selection efficiency, stem height had the greatest contribution. The superior banana clones were found to be stable and could reliably be used in establishment of new banana plantations to increase
H. Pinar (&) M. Unlu F. Hanci Agriculture Faculty, Department of Horticulture, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey e-mail: [email protected] M. Bircan C. Turkay A. Uzun Alata Horticultural Research Institute, 33740 Erdemli, Mersin, Turkey S. Ercisli Agriculture Faculty, Department of Horticulture, Ataturk University, Erzurum, Turkey
yield and quality in subtropical conditions in Mediterranean region in Turkey. Keywords
Banana Selection Breeding efficiency
Introduction Horticultural crops, such as fruits, vegetables, floral crops and ornamentals, have become essential components of aesthetics and nutrition in our daily life. Plant genotypes affects not only the plant growth and yield, but also the overall plant quality, improving in turn the cumulative benefits of plants. Controlled and protected cultivation systems, as part of extensive and sustainable methods for the future of crop production, has rapidly expanded throughout the world (Ercisli et al. 2008; Zia-Ul-Haq et al. 2014; Senica et al. 2019; Gecer et al. 2020). Although banana is a tropical fruit, it can also be grown in subtropical microclimates. Banana shares 14% of the total fresh fruit production of the world. The majority of this production is provided by India, Brazil, Ecuador, the Philippines, Indonesia and China. World annual banana production is about 115 million tons where 500 thousand tons belongs to Turkey (FAO 2018). Bananas and plantains that belong to Musa L. (Family Musaceae, order Gingiberales) are important foodstuffs for millions of people in tropical regions of
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the world, being one of the world’s most important fruit products in terms of production amount and consumption (Batte et al. 2019). Majority of the edible banana cultivars are sterile triploids or tet
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