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Taxonomy and Origins of the Cultivated Banana (1955) Bananas (1959, 1966, and with Robert Stover in 1987) Variability in Crop Plants (1962) Evolution of Bananas (1962) Evolution of Crop Plants (1976, ed. and author) Principles of Crop Improvement (1979); 2nd edition with coauthor J. Smartt (1999) [7] Plant Breeding: The State of the Art (1983)
It imported plants that had commercial potential and conducted experiments to determine if they could be adapted to Queensland's tropical and sub-tropical climate. Plants researched included sugar cane, bananas, cotton, apples, pineapples, pasture grasses, maize, olives, mangoes, pecan nuts and macadamia nuts.
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Contrary to common belief, growing banana trees is not that difficult and allow people to enjoy their own bananas. [2] Also these plants can be used as windbreaks.They need fertile soils, large mulch and organic matter, large amounts of nitrogen and potassium, warm temperature, high humidity, large amounts of water, and shelter from other banana plants.
It imported plants that had commercial potential and conducted experiments to determine if they could be adapted to Queensland's tropical and sub-tropical climate. Plants researched included sugar cane, bananas, cotton, apples, pineapples, pasture grasses, maize, olives, mangoes, pecan nuts and macadamia nuts.
Musa acuminata is a species of banana native to Southern Asia, its range comprising the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. Many of the modern edible dessert bananas are from this species, although some are hybrids with Musa balbisiana. [5] First cultivated by humans around 8000 BCE, [6] [7] it is one of the early examples of domesticated ...
South Korea's cultivated area of subtropical crops has jumped from about 295 hectares (730 acres) in 2021 to 3,306 hectares in 2023, with 67 banana farms in the south, according to the Rural ...
Plants faced conflicting evolutionary pressures: the need to attract pollinators and seed dispensers, and to minimize the damage caused by herbivores. Many (tropical) plants use toxins to protect themselves. Cassava, one of the most important tropical food crops, produces cyanide upon ingestion unless processed to remove/reduce the cyanide ...