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Grant Title:

Highland Banana Improvement in Uganda


PI:

Dr Daphrose Gahakwa

Contact Details

NARO-Kawanda, P. O. Box 7065, Kampala, Uganda

Phone: +256 41 567158 , Fax: 256 41 566581

Email: gahakwar@yahoo.com 

Grantee:

NARO

Amount:

US $205,100

Duration:

Three Years

Project Description

Objectives

  1. Training and supervision of the banana germplasm improvement personnel.

  2. Selecting banana cross-breeding lines through ploidy analysis.

  3. Developing markers for parthenocarpy

Outputs

  • Banana germplasm improvement personnel strengthened and trained

  • Molecular biology laboratory operationalised

  • Hybrids for evaluation increased and time for their evaluation reduced  

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Ploidy analyzer

Selection of bananas based on their ploidy


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