The Banana Asia-Pacific Network (ASPNET) was established in 1991 to foster collaborative research on bananas and renamed BAPNET (Banana Asia Pacific network) in 2002. The network includes 13 country members and 2 research institutes.
BAPNET operates under the auspices of APAARI (Asia Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutes) and is guided by a Steering Committee, which is made up of representatives of all the national programmes and institutions that participate in the network.
This committee meets annually to review progress in addressing the regional research agenda and to discuss future priorities and strategies for the network. Bioversity International’s regional office in the Philippines provides the secretariat and coordination for the network.
Activities
• Mitigating the threat of banana Fusarium wilt: Understanding the agro-ecological distribution of pathogenic forms and developing disease management strategies
Project annual report - Period: 1 June 2007 - 31 May 2008 (pdf 81 kb)
Poster (pdf 255 kb) entitled: "Status of Tropical Race 4 (TR4) of Panama Wilt in Asia", presented by Dr. Agustin Molina at the 8th Australian Banana Congress held at the Conrad Jupiters Convention, Gold Coast, Brisbane, Australia from June 4-6, 2009.
• Introduction, evaluation and adoption of improved and superior local cultivars of banana for food and income generation
Posters:
Ensuring virus-free banana germplasm for long-term conservation. (pdf 1254 kb)By: FM dela Cueva, EG Dinglasan, OP Damasco, LS Gueco, FS dela Cruz, and AB Molina, Presented at the Philippines Fruits Association Symposium. 2008
Role of healthy-looking banana and alternate hosts in the spread of banana bunchy top disease. (pdf 371 kb) By: FM dela Cueva, EG Dinglasan, TO Dizon, FS dela Cruz, OP Damasco, and AB Molina. Presented at the Pest Management Council of the Philippines Symposium. 2009
Symptomless banana plants and other species as reservoir for BBTV inoculum. (pdf 797 kb) By: FM dela Cueva, EG Dinglasan, FS dela Cruz, and AB Molina. Presented at the ProMusa-ISHS Symposium. 2009.
Comparison of three inoculation techniques for pathogenicity tests on Fusarium wilt of banana. (pdf 774 kb) By: CE Soguilon, AG Yebes, LE Herradura, VGO Sinohin, and AB Molina. Presented at the ProMusa-ISHS Symposium. 2009
Confirmation of Tropical Race 4 of Fusarium Oxysporum F. Sp. Cubense Infecting Cavendish Bananas in the Philippines. (pdf 170 kb) By: Agustin Molina, Emily Fabregar, Vida Grace Sinohin, Lorna Herradura, Gerda Fourie, and Altus Viljoen. Presented at the Amercian Phytopathological Society Conference, July 2008, Minnesota, USA
Alternative ex-situ conservation to ensure long-term virus-free conservation of Musa germplasm. (pdf 734 kb)By: AB Molina, FS dela Cruz, LS Gueco, OP Damasco, VC Huelgas, FM dela Cueva, TO Dizon, MLJ Sison, VGO Sinohin, MA Alforque, and LE Herradura. Presented at the ProMusa-ISHS Symposium. 2009
New cultivar options for banana growers. (pdf 1287 kb) By: FS dela Cruz, LS Gueco, OP Damasco, VC Huelgas, FM dela Cueva, TO Dizon, IG Banasihan, VGO Sinohin, and AB Molina. Presented at the ProMusa-ISHS Symposium. 2009
Report
Project Terminal Report - July 2009 (pdf 1651 kb)
• National Repository, Multiplication and Distribution Centers
Project Final Report - July 2008 (pdf 451 kb)
• Crop diversification project |
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