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Major Technological Milestones, 1990–2000
Area
Technology/Information Generated
Banana
Preproduction
Variety • Banana cultivars/accessions in the Southeast Asian
Banana Germplasm Resource Center
Propagation • Tissue-cultured banana nursery for small banana
growers
• Improved technique for banana mass propagation
• Performance of tissue-cultured banana plants
• Rapid indexing of virus-disease in Musa spp.
• Shoot culture technique for banana
Production
Planting Density • Appropriate population density for Cardaba banana
Cropping System • Intercropping durian with ‘Lakatan’ banana and/or in
coconut
• Modified banana cropping system for the Ilocos Region
Crop Protection • Community-based control strategies and rehabilitation
of banana bunchy top disease affected areas
• Isolation/detection of viruslike particles in banana,
papaya, and citrus
• Control of bugtok in bananas
• Use of monoclonal antibody-based diagnostic kit for
rapid indexing of fruit crop diseases
• Inoculation techniques in screening for resistance to
banana leaf diseases
Postharvest • Harvesting index for Cardaba bananas
• Storage under in vitro and virus elimination of infected
banana plants
• MA storage for banana, papaya, and pineapple
Mango
Preproduction
Variety • Outstanding fruit crops and mango cultivars in Ilocos
Norte
• Mango accessions in National Mango R&D Center
(NMRDC) genebank
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