 | FOREWORD (Dr. V. Galán Saúco) |
| FRUIT BREEDING IN THE 21ST CENTURY (J. Janick) |
| SELECTION OF NEW BANANA VARIETIES FOR THE COOL SUBTROPICS IN AUSTRALIA (M.K. Smith, S.D. Hamill, P.W. Langdon, K.G. Pegg) |
| THE EVALUATION OF PROMISING NEW BANANA CULTIVARS (K. Eckstein, C. Fraser, J. Husselmann, N. Temple Murray) |
| BANANA IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM AT RAHAN MERISTEM (E. Khayat, A. Duvdevani, A. Shchukin, E. Lahav) |
| IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERISATION OF DWARF OFF-TYPES FROM MICROPROPAGATED CAVENDISH BANANAS (Olivia P. Damasco, Mike K. Smith, Steve W. Adkins, Suzan E. Hetherington, Ian D. Godwin) |
| PRELIMINARY STUDIES OF CAVENDISH BANANA CULTIVARS UNDER THE EDAFOCLIMATIC CONDITIONS OF MADEIRA ISLAND (L. Nuno, V.P. Ribeiro, J. Silva) |
| DISTRIBUTION OF BANANA GERMPLASM IN WEST AND CENTRAL AFRICA (E. Auboiron) |
| A COMPARISON OF THE PARENT CROP OF THREE CULTIVARS OF BANANA IN THE OPEN AIR AND UNDER PLASTIC MESH IN THE NORTH OF TENERIFE (C. Méndez Hernández) |
| EVALUATION OF MEDIUM-HEIGHT CAVENDISH BANANA CULTIVARS UNDER THE SUBTROPICAL CONDITIONS OF THE CANARY ISLANDS (V. Galán Saúco, J. Cabrera Cabrera, P.M. Hernández Delgado, M.C. Rodríguez Pastor) |
| WATER AND NUTRIENT EFFICIENCY IN GROWING BANANAS IN SUBTROPICS (E. Lahav, A. Lowengart) |
| IMPROVEMENT OF BANANA GROWING CONDITIONS WITH THE KATRYX® BAG (M. Jannoyer, M. Chillet) |
| GREENHOUSE CULTIVATION OF BANANAS IN SOUTH AFRICA (K. Eckstein, C. Fraser, W. Joubert) |
| EVALUATION OF VARIOUS IRRIGATION SYSTEMS FOR HIGHEST ECONOMICAL YIELD AND OPTIMUM WATER USE FOR BANANAS (K. Eckstein, C. Fraser, A. Botha, J. Husselmann) |
| PLANTLET SIZE AND PLANTING METHOD FOR TISSUE CULTURE BANANA PLANTS (C. Fraser, K. Eckstein) |
| RESPONSE OF THE BANANA PLANT TO DEFICIT IRRIGATION IN THE CANARY ISLANDS (J. Santana-Ojeda, C.L. Suárez-Sánchez) |
| SINGLE-CYCLE CULTIVATION OF IN VITRO-PROPAGATED GRANDE NAINE BANANA UNDER SUBTROPICAL CONDITIONS (J. Cabrera Cabrera, V. Galán Saúco, P.M. Hernández Delgado, M.C. Rodríguez Pastor) |
| EFFECT OF THREE SPACINGS ON YIELD OF ‘NANICÃO’ BANANA, IN SOUTHERN BRAZIL (L.A. Lichtemberg, R.H. Hinz, J.L. Malburg, H. Stuker) |
| EFFECTS OF TREE DENSITY AND CROP MANAGEMENT UPON GROWTH OF PLANTAIN IN A LOW-INPUT AGRISILVICULTURAL SYSTEM (L. Norgrove, S. Hauser) |
| DEVELOPMENT OF PRE-ACCLIMATIZED BANANA PLANTLETS OBTAINED FROM TISSUE CULTURE (S. Silva, R.P. Oliveira, A.P. de Matos, S. Silva Neto, A.G. Prazeres, C.A.P. Oliveira) |
| CHANGES IN DISTRIBUTION OF BANANA (MUSA AAA CV. VALERY) ROOTS WITH PLANT HEIGHT, DISTANCE FROM THE PSEUDOSTEM AND SOIL DEPTH (M. Araya, A. Vargas, A. Cheves) |
| ECOPHYSIOLOGY OF BANANAS: THE GENERATION AND FUNCTIONING OF THE LEAF CANOPY (D.W. Turner) |
| RESPONSE OF BANANA (MUSA SP.) ROOTS TO OXYGEN DEFICIENCY AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR FUSARIUM WILT (E.A. Aguilar, D.W. Turner, D.J. Gibbs, K. Sivasithamparam, W. Armstrong) |
| EFFECTS OF SOIL MANAGEMENT AND WATER REGIME ON BANANA GROWTH BETWEEN PLANTING AND FLOWERING. SIMULATION USING THE STICS MODEL (N. Brisson, H. Ozier-Lafontaine, M. Dorel) |
| MORPHOLOGICAL METHODS FOR THE DETECTION OF BANANA OFF-TYPES DURING THE HARDENING PHASE (G. Grillo, M. José Grajal Martín, A. Domínguez) |
| COMPARISON OF PROTECTED AND OPEN-AIR CULTIVATION OF GRANDE NAINE AND DWARF CAVENDISH BANANAS (V. Galán Saúco, J. Cabrera Cabrera, P.M. Hernández Delgado, M.C. Rodríguez Pastor) |
| BANANA DISEASES IN THE SUBTROPICS: A REVIEW OF THEIR IMPORTANCE, DISTRIBUTION AND MANAGEMENT (R. Ploetz) |
| INFLUENCE OF ZINC NUTRITION ON FUSARIUM WILT OF BANANA - AN ELECTRON MICROSCOPIC INVESTIGATION (Ch. Hecht-Buchholz, A. Borges-Pérez, M. Fernández Falcón, A.A. Borges) |
| INTERACTION OF ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI AND THE SOIL PATHOGEN FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM F. SP. CUBENSE ON THE FIRST STAGES OF MICROPROPAGATED GRANDE NAINE BANANA (M.C. Jaizme-Vega, B. Sosa Hernández, J.M. Hernández Hernández) |
| THE BIOLOGY OF COLLETOTRICHUM MUSAE (BERK. ET CURT.) ARX AND ITS RELATION TO CONTROL OF BANANA ANTHRACNOSE (L. de Lapeyre de Bellaire, X. Mourichon) |
| VEGETATIVE COMPATIBILITY GROUPS WITHIN KENYAN POPULATIONS OF FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM F. SP. CUBENSE (J. Kung'u, P. Jeffries) |
| RACIAL STRUCTURE OF FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM F. SP. CUBENSE IN THE CANARY ISLANDS (V.M. Regalado Guijarro, J.M. Hernández Hernández) |
| IDENTIFICATION OF UNCHARACTERISED FILAMENTOUS VIRAL PARTICLES ON BANANA PLANTS (M. Caruana, S. Galzi) |
| PROMUSA - A GLOBAL PROGRAMME FOR MUSA IMPROVEMENT (S.L. Sharrock, G. Orjeda, E.A. Frison) |
| EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES OF YELLOW SIGATOKA (MYCOSPHAERELLA MUSICOLA) ON MICROPROPAGATED MUSA CLONES (I. Trujillo, E. García, O. Haddad) |
| A REVIEW OF BANANA ATTACKING NEMATODES IN THE SUBTROPICS WITH EMPHASIS ON PRATYLENCHUS GOODEYI IN THE CANARY ISLANDS (J. Pinochet) |
| NEMATODE SUSCEPTIBILITY AND SENSITIVITY OF IN VITRO PROPAGATED ‘VALERY’ BANANAS UNDER FIELD CONDITIONS IN COSTA RICA (D. Waele, Rony L. Swennen, E. Boonen) |
| SCREENING INDIAN CULTIVARS OF MUSA FOR RESISTANCE OR TOLERANCE TO RADOPHOLUS SIMILIS AND PRATYLENCHUS COFFEAE (F.M.B. Collingborn, S.R. Gowen) |
| EFFECT OF ROOT LENGTH AND ROOT MACERATION TIME ON BANANAS (MUSA AAA) PLANT-PARASITIC NEMATODE RECOVERY (M. Araya, L. Obando) |
| BANANA INSECT PESTS (S. Silva, M. Fancelli) |
| DEGRADATION STUDIES OF COMMONLY USED PESTICIDES IN BANANA PLANTATIONS IN THE CANARY ISLANDS (C. Otazo Glez, A. Gonzalez Hernández, M.P. Ortega Rodríguez, R. Martín Suárez, M. Gamón Vila) |
| BANANA NATURAL PEST CONTROL IN THE RAIN TROPIC OF MEXICO (C. Segovia) |
| BIOTECHNOLOGICAL APPROACHES FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF CAVENDISH BANANAS (R. Swennen, I. Van den houwe, S. Remy, L. Sági, H. Schoofs) |
| PHENYLPHENALENONE-TYPE PHYTOALEXINS AND PHYTOANTICIPINS FROM SUSCEPTIBLE AND RESISTANT CULTIVARS OF MUSA SPECIES. ITS POTENCIAL FOR ENGINEERING RESISTANCE TO FUNGI AND NEMATODES INTO BANANA (Javier G. Luis) |
| PRODUCTION OF TRANSGENIC BANANA PLANTS EXPRESSING ANTIFUNGAL PROTEINS (S. Remy, A. Buyens, B.P.A. Cammue, R. Swennen, L. Sági) |
| ISOZYME AND DISSOCIATED PROTEIN PROFILES OF NORMAL PLANTS AND SOMACLONAL VARIANTS OF BANANA OBTAINED BY IN VITRO CULTURE (M. T. V. Carvalho, E. Derbyshire, Maisa P. Martins-Corder, B. M.J. Mendes, A. Neto) |
| THE USE OF RANDOMLY AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA (RAPD) FOR THE STUDY OF GENETIC DIVERSITY AND SOMACLONAL VARIATION IN MUSA (M. Grajal-Martín, G. Siverio-Grillo, A. Marrero-Domínguez) |
| PLANT REGENERATION FROM PROTOPLASTS OF A BRAZILIAN DESSERT BANANA (MUSA SPP., AAB GROUP) (K. Matsumoto, S. Oka) |
| CHEMOTACTIC MOVEMENT TO WOUND EXUDATES AND ATTACHMENT OF AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS TO SINGLE CELLS AND TISSUES FROM BANANA PLANTS (J.B. Pérez Hernández, S. Remy, L. Sági, R. Swennen, V. Galán Saúco) |
| INFLUENCE OF THE NUMBER OF SUBCULTURES ON SOMACLONAL VARIATION IN MICROPROPAGATED NANICÃO (MUSA SPP., AAA GROUP) (P.H.V. Rodrigues, A. Tulmann Neto, P. Cassieri Neto, B.M.J. Mendes) |
| COMPETENCE OF SCALPS FOR SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS IN MUSA (H. Schoofs, B. Panis, R. Swennen) |
| BACTERIAL CONTAMINATION IN MUSA SHOOT TIP CULTURES (I. Van den houwe, J. Guns, R. Swennen) |
| POLLEN AND ANTHER CULTURE IN MUSA SPP. (M. Perea Dallos) |
| AN OVERVIEW OF POST-HARVEST ASPECTS OF BANANA (J. Marchal) |
| AN INTEGRATED APPROACH FOR THE PREVENTION ON UNEVEN DEGREENING OF BANANAS IN TAIWAN (S. Chiang, C. Tang, C. Chao, S. Hwang) |
| EFFECT OF INHIBITORS OF ETHYLENE BIOSYNTHESIS AND ACTION ON RIPENING OF BANANAS (M. Domínguez, E. Domínguez-Puigjaner, M. Saladié, M. Vendrell) |
| EFFECTS OF HOT WATER TREATMENTS ON POSTHARVEST QUALITY AND ETHYLENE SYNTHESIS OF BANANAS (A. Marrero Domínguez, J.J. López Cabrera, M. Pomar García) |
| POSTHARVEST EVALUATION OF FHIA-01 AND OTHER NEW BANANA VARIETIES FOR SUBTROPICAL AUSTRALIA (J. Alan Seberry, David R. Harris) |
| THE EFFECTS OF PEEL ABRASION ON THE POSTHARVEST PHYSIOLOGY AND COMMERCIAL LIFE OF BANANA FRUITS (J.D. Santana Lladó, A. Marrero Domínguez) |
| FORCED RIPENING OF BANANAS: EVALUATION OF THE AFTER TREATMENT TEMPERATURE (M.P. De Proft, P. Omoaka, A.M. Pekke) |
| USE OF HOT WATER DIPS TO CONTROL THE INCIDENCE OF BANANA CROWN ROT (J. López-Cabrera, A. Marrero-Domínguez) |
| COOKING QUALITIES AND PHYSICOCHEMICAL CHANGES DURING RIPENING IN SOME BANANA AND PLANTAIN HYBRIDS AND CULTIVARS (J.A. Ngalani, J. Tchango Tchango) |
| ADAPTATION OF THE TRADITIONAL BANANA JUICE EXTRACTION TECHNOLOGY TO A MECHANICAL PROCESS AND FACTORS INFLUENCING JUICE RELEASE (W. Kyamuhangire, R. Pehrson, W. Kyamuhangire) |
| ADVANCES IN BANANA PRODUCTION IN NORTHWEST ARGENTINA (N.B. Casalderrey, S. Bertuzzi, D. Montenegro, C. Gallardo) |
| THE EFFECTS OF C.M.O.B. ON THE SPANISH MARKET OF BANANA: AN ANALYSIS OF SUPPLY AND PRICES (Juan S. Nuez Yánez) |
| INVESTIGATIONS ON GROWING POSSIBILITIES OF BANANA IN TURKEY (M. Pekmezci, H. Gübbük, M. Erkan) |
