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Genomic Prediction in a Multiploid Crop: Genotype by Environment Interaction and Allele Dosage Effects on Predictive Ability in Banana
Moses Nyine, Brigitte Uwimana, Nicolas Blavet, Eva Hribova, Helena Vanrespaille, Michael Batte, Violet Akech, Allan Brown, Jim Lorenzen, Rony Swennend and Jaroslav Dolezel. PLant genome March 2, 2018 doi:10.3835/plantgenome2017.10.0090
Trait variation and genetic diversity in a banana genomic selection training population
Moses Nyine,Brigitte Uwimana, Rony Swennen, Michael Batte, Allan Brown, Pavla Christelov, Eva Hribova, Jim Lorenzen, Jaroslav Dolezel. Plos one June 6, 2017 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0178734
Evolutionary dynamics and biogeography of Musaceae reveal a correlation between the diversification of the banana family and the geological and climatic history of Southeast Asia
Steven B. Janssens, Filip Vandelook, Edmond De Langhe, Brecht Verstraete, Erik Smets, Ines Van Den Houwe and Rony Swennen. New Phytol. 2016 Feb 1. doi: 10.1111/nph.13856
Molecular and Cytogenetic Characterization of Wild Musa Species
Jana Cizkova, Eva Hribova,Pavla Christelova, Ines Van Den Houwe, Markku Hakkinen, Nicolas Roux, Rony Swennen, Jaroslav Dolezel. Plos One 2015 Aug 7. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0134096
Phenalenone-type phytoalexins mediate resistance of banana plants (Musa spp.) to the burrowing nematode Radopholus similis
Dirk Holscher, Suganthagunthalam Dhakshinamoorthy, Theodore Alexandrov, Michael Becker,Tom Bretschneider, Andreas Buerkert, Anna C. Crecelius, Dirk De Waele, Annemie Elsen, David G.Heckel, Heike Heklau, Christian Hertweck, Marco Kai, Katrin Knop, Christoph Krafft, Ravi K. Maddula, Christian Matthaus, Jurgen Popp, Bernd Schneider, Ulrich S. Schubert, Richard A. Sikora, Ales Svatos and Rony L. Swennen. PNAS 2014 Nov 14. www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1314168110
From crossbreeding to biotechnology-facilitated improvement of banana and plantain
Rodomiro Ortiz, Rony Swennen. Biotech. Adv. 2013 Oct 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biotechadv.2013.09.010