Banana research groups
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1   Link   Taxonomy Advisory Group Forum (TAG)
Growing community of experts and research and collection managers, communicating and sharing knowledge and experience through email and the internet with the aim of addressing specific constraints in Musa conservation and use.
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2   Link   Global Musa Genomics Consortium
International network of investigators committed to establishing Musa as a model crop for studies of comparative genomics and for gene discovery, leading eventually to sequencing of the banana genome and the creation of new banana varieties.
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3   Link   Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries (DPI&F)
Queensland's DPI&F supports strategic industry development at all stages of the industry lifecycle and throughout the entire value chain from production to consumption.
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4   Link   Brazil Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA)
Seeks to provide solutions for the sustainable development of Brazilian agribusiness. EMBRAPA has a banana breeding programme.
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5   Link   Costa Rican National Banana Corporation (CORBANA)
Public non-governmental body aiming to improve current agricultural practices and searching for new production alternatives.
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6   Link   Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR)
Research institute devoted to enhancing horticultural productivity in India. IIHR has a banana breeding programme.
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7   Link   National Research Centre for Banana (NRCB)
Indian centre to undertake basic and strategic research for developing technologies to enhance productivity and utilization of banana and plantain, to serve as national repository of germplasm and information related to banana and plantain and to dis
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8   Link   National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO)
Body guiding and coordinating activities in the national agricultural research system of Uganda. The goal of the Uganda National Banana Research Programme (http://www.banana.go.ug) is to enhance banana productivity and utilization through development
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9   Link   Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI)
South African research institute with a Banana Research Programme.
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10   Link   Centre de CoopĂ©ration Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le DĂ©veloppement (CIRAD)
French agricultural research centre working for the development of tropical and subtropical regions. Three research units work on banana: Banana, Plantain and Pineapple Cropping Systems (UPR) (http://www.cirad.fr/ur/systemes_bananes_ananas), Genetic
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11   Link   Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Laboratory of Tropical Crop Improvement
Based in Belgium, the laboratory focuses its research on improving the livelihood of subsistence farmers in the tropics through sustainable agriculture. It hosts Bioversity's International Transit Centre (ITC), the world's largest collection of Musa
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12   Link   International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA):
IITA is an Africa-based international research-for-development organization dedicated to the development of technologies that reduce producer and consumer risk, increase local production, and generate wealth.
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13   Link   Bioversity International Banana and Plantain Section
The mission of Bioversity's banana research group is to help people, especially small-scale banana producers and their communities, to improve their well-being through effective use of banana biodiversity
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