Publications

2012

• Hippolyte I, Jenny C, Gardes L, Bakry F, Rivallan R, Pomies V, Cubry P, Tomekpe K, Risterucci AM, Roux N, Rouard M, Arnaud E, Kolesnikova-Allen M, Perrier X (2012). Foundation characteristics of edible Musa triploids revealed from allelic distribution of SSR markers. Annals of Botany. doi:10.1093/aob/mcs010
  
  
• Guignon V, Droc G, Alaux M, Baurens FC, Garsmeur O, Poiron C, Carver T, Rouard M, Bocs S (2012) Chado Controller: advanced annotation management with a community annotation system. Bioinformatics. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bts046

2011

• Jeridi, M., Bakry, F., Escoute, J., Fondi, E., Carreel, F., Ferchichi, A., D’Hont, A., et Rodier-Goud, M. 2011. Homoeologous chromosome pairing between the A and B genomes of Musa spp. revealed by genomic in situ hybridization. Ann Bot.

• Henry I., Carpentier S., Pampurova S., Van Hoylandt A., Panis B., Swennen R. and Remy S., 2011. Structure and regulation of the Asr gene family in banana. Planta. DOI: 10.1007/s00425-011-1421-0.

• Perrier,X., De Langhe,E., Donohue,M., Lentfer,C., Vrydaghs,L., Bakry,F., Carreel,F., Hippolyte,I., Horry,J.-P., Jenny,C., et al. (2011) Multidisciplinary perspectives on banana (Musa spp.) domestication. PNAS, 10.1073/pnas.1102001108.

• Paul, J.-Y., Becker, D.K., Dickman, M.B., Harding, R.M., Khanna, H.K., et Dale, J.L. 2011. Apoptosis-related genes confer resistance to Fusarium wilt in transgenic « Lady Finger » bananas. Plant Biotechnol J. 
• Christelova, P., Valarik, M., Hribova, E., De Langhe, E. et Dolezel, J. (2011) A multi gene sequence-based phylogeny of the Musaceae (banana) family. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 11, 103, 10.1186/1471-2148-11-103.  doi:10.1186/1471-2148-11-103

• Arango, Rafael E., Roberto C. Togawa, Sebastien C. Carpentier, Nicolas Roux, Bas L. Hekkert, Gert H. J. Kema, et Manoel T. Souza. 2011.  Genome-wide BAC-end sequencing of Musa acuminata DH Pahang reveals further insights into the genome organization of banana. Tree Genetics & Genomes. doi:10.1007/s11295-011-0385-3.

• Hřibová, Eva, Jana Čížková, Pavla Christelová, Stefan Taudien, Edmond de Langhe, et Jaroslav Doležel. 2011.  The ITS1-5.8S-ITS2 Sequence Region in the Musaceae: Structure, Diversity and Use in Molecular Phylogeny. PLoS ONE 6 (3) : e17863. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0017863.

• Vertommen, A, A L B Møller, J H G Cordewener, R Swennen, B Panis, C Finnie, A H P America, et S C Carpentier. 2011. A workflow for peptide-based proteomics in a poorly sequenced plant: A case study on the plasma membrane proteome of banana. Journal of Proteomics. doi:10.1016/j.jprot.2011.02.008.

• Christelova,P., Valarik,M., Hribova,E., Van den houwe,I., Channeliere,S., Roux,N. et Dolezel,J. (2011) A platform for efficient genotyping in Musa using microsatellite markers. AoB Plants, 2011, plr024-plr024, 10.1093/aobpla/plr024.
  
  
• Ravishankar, K.V., Rekha, A., Swarupa, V. and Savitha, G. (2011). Gene expression analysis in roots of musa acuminate ssp. Burmannicoides 'Calcutta-4', a banana genotype tolerant to fusarium wilt . Acta Hort. (ISHS) 897:363-370.
  
  
• Rekha, A., Ravishankar, K.V. and Ambika, D.S. 2011. Generation of segregating F1 populations for mapping the musa genome. Acta Hort. (ISHS) 897:277-278. 4.
  
  
• Ravishankar, K.V., Rekha, A., Laxman, R.H., Savitha, G. and Swarupa, V. 2011. Gene expression analysis in leaves of 'bee hee kela', a drought-tolerant musa balbisiana genotype from northeast india. Acta Hort. (ISHS) 897:279-280.
  
  
• Xu CX, Zhao L, Pan X, Šamaj J. Developmental localization and methylesterification of pectin epitopes during somatic embryogenesis of banana (Musa spp. AAA). PLoS ONE, 2011, 6(8): e22992
  
  
• Xu CX, Takác, Burbach C, Menzel D, Šamaj J. Developmental localization and the role of hydroxyproline rich glycoproteins during somatic embryogenesis of banana (Musa spp. AAA). BMC Plant Biology, 2011, 11: 38
  
  
• R.N.G. Miller, M.A.N. Passos, F.L. Emediato, C. de Camargo Teixeira, G.J. Pappas Júnior. 2011. Candidate Resistance Gene Discovery: Resistance Gene Analog Characterization and Differential Gene Expression Analysis in Musa-Mycosphaerella Host-Pathogen Interactions. Acta Hort. (ISHS) 897: 179-186.
  
  
• Pan X, Yang X, Lin GM, Zou Ru, Chen HB, Šamaj J, Xu CX. Ultrastructural changes and the distribution of arabinogalactan proteins during somatic embryogenesis of banana (Musa spp. AAA). Physiologia Plantarum, 2011, 142:372-389
  
  
• Vertommen A., Panis B., Swennen R. and Carpentier S., 2011. Challenges and solutions for the identification of membrane proteins in non-model plants. Journal of Proteomics 74:1165-1181.

2010

• Hribova, Eva, Pavel Neumann, Takashi Matsumoto, Nicolas Roux, Jiri Macas, et Jaroslav Dolezel. 2010. Repetitive part of the banana (Musa acuminata) genome investigated by low-depth 454 sequencing. BMC Plant Biology 10, n°. 1: 204. doi:10.1186/1471-2229-10-204.

• Baurens, Franc-Christophe, Stephanie Bocs, Mathieu Rouard, Takashi Matsumoto, Robert Miller, Marguerite Rodier-Goud, Didier MBeguie-A-MBeguie, et Nabila Yahiaoui. 2010. Mechanisms of haplotype divergence at the RGA08 nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat gene locus in wild banana (Musa balbisiana). BMC Plant Biology 10, n°. 1: 149. doi:10.1186/1471-2229-10-149.
  
  
• Teo, Chee How, Han Pin Pui, Rofina Yasmin Othman, et Jennifer Ann Harikrishna. 2010.  Comparative analysis of Argonaute gene sequences in bananas (Musa sp.) shows conserved species-specific Ago-7 PIWI domains. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution. doi:10.1007/s10722-010-9614-0.

• De Langhe, E., E. Hribova, S. Carpentier, J. Dolezel, et R. Swennen. 2010. Did backcrossing contribute to the origin of hybrid edible bananas? Annals of Botany (9). doi:10.1093/aob/mcq187.
  

• Till, Bradley J, Joanna Jankowicz-Cieslak, László Sági, Owen A Huynh, Hiroe Utsushi, Rony Swennen, Ryohei Terauchi, et Chikelu Mba. 2010. Discovery of nucleotide polymorphisms in the Musa gene pool by Ecotilling. TAG. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. (Juin 30). doi:10.1007/s00122-010-1395-5.

• Elitzur, Tomer, Julia Vrebalov, James J Giovannoni, Eliezer E Goldschmidt, et Haya Friedman. 2010. The regulation of MADS-box gene expression during ripening of banana and their regulatory interaction with ethylene. Journal of Experimental Botany 61, no. 5: 1523-1535. doi:10.1093/jxb/erq017
  
  
• Hippolyte, Isabelle, Frederic Bakry, Marc Seguin, Laetitia Gardes, RonanRivallan, Ange-Marie Risterucci, Christophe Jenny, et al. 2010. A saturatedSSR/DArT linkage map of Musa acuminata addressing genome rearrangementsamong bananas. BMC Plant Biology 10, no. 1: 65.doi:10.1186/1471-2229-10-65
  
  
• Miller, Robert, Marcos Passos, Natalia Menezes, Manoel Souza, Marcos do Carmo Costa, Vania Azevedo, Edson Amorim, Georgios Pappas, et Ana Ciampi. 2010. Characterization of novel microsatellite markers in Musa acuminata subsp. burmannicoides, var. Calcutta 4. BMC Research Notes 3, n°. 1: 148.

• Li, Lin-Feng, Markku Häkkinen, Yong-Ming Yuan, Gang Hao, et Xue-Jun Ge. 2010. Molecular phylogeny and systematics of the banana family (Musaceae) inferred from multiple nuclear and chloroplast DNAfragments, with a special reference to the genus Musa. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 57, n°. 1 (October): 1-10. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2010.06.021. 
  

• Youssef, Muhammad, Andrew C James, Renata Rivera-Madrid, Rodomiro Ortiz, et Rosa María Escobedo-Graciamedrano. 2010. Musa Genetic Diversity Revealed by SRAP and AFLP. Molecular Biotechnology (August). doi:10.1007/s12033-010-9328-8.

2009

2008

• Azhar M, Heslop-Harrison J.S. Genomes, diversity and resistance gene analogues in Musa species. Cytogenet Genome Res 121:59–66 (2008) [link]
  
  
• Mbéguié-A-Mbéguié D., Hubert O., Fils-Lycaon B., Chillet M., Baurens F.C. (2008). EIN3-like gene expression during fruit ripening of Cavendish banana (Musa acuminata cv. Grande naine). Physiologia plantarum, 133 (2) : 435-448. [link]

• R. Boonruangrod, D. Desai, S. Fluch, M. Berenyi and K. Burg (2008). Identification of cytoplasmic ancestor gene-pools of Musa acuminata colla and Musa balbisiana Colla and their hybrids by chloroplast and mitochondrial haplotyping. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. Dec;118(1):43-55. Epub 2008 Sep 2. [link]
• de Capdeville G., Souza Junior M. T., Szinay D., Diniz L., Wijnker E., de Jong H., Swennen R., Kema G. H. J. and De Jong H., 2008. The potential of high-resolution BAC-FISH in banana breeding. Euphytica DOI 10.1007/s10681-008-9830-2. [link]
  
  
• Hribova, E., Dolezelova, M., Dolezel, J.: Localization of BAC clones on mitotic chromosomes of Musa acuminata using fluorescence in situ hybridization. - Biologia Plantarum 52(3): 445-452, 2008
  
  
• Carpentier SC, Panis B, Vertommen A, Swennen R, Sergeant K, Renaut J, Laukens K, Witters E, Samyn B, Devreese B. Proteome analysis of non-model plants: A challenging but powerful approach. Mass Spectrom Rev. 2008 Jul-Aug;27(4):354-77. [link]
  
  
• Roux N., Baurens F.C., Doležel J., Hribová E., Heslop-Harrison J.S., Town C., Sasaki T., Matsumoto T., Aert R., Remy S., Souza M. and Lagoda P. 2008. Genomics of banana and plantain (Musa spp.), Major staple crops in the tropics. Pp. 83-111 in Genomics of Tropical Crop Plants (Moore P and Ming R eds.). Plant Genetics and Genomics: Crops and Models Vol 1. Springer, New York.[link]
  
  
• R. N. G. Miller, D. J. Bertioli, F.C. Baurens, C. M.R. Santos, P. C. Alves, N. F. Martins, R. C. Togawa, M. T. Souza Junior, G. J. Pappas Junior.
  Analysis of non-TIR NBS-LRR resistance gene analogs in Musa acuminata Colla: Isolation, RFLP marker development, and physical mapping. BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:15 (30 January 2008)[link]
  
  
• M. Lescot, P. Piffanelli, A. Y. Ciampi, M. Ruiz, G. Blanc, J. Leebens-Mack, F. R da Silva, C. M.R Santos, A. D'Hont, O. Garsmeur, A. D Vilarinhos, H. Kanamori, T. Matsumoto, C. M Ronning, F. Cheung, B. J Haas, R. Althoff, T. Arbogast, E. Hine, G. J Pappas Jr, T. Sasaki, M. T Souza Jr, R. N. G. Miller, J.C. Glaszmann, C. D Town.
  Insights into the Musa genome: syntenic relationships to rice and between Musa species. BMC Genomics 2008, 9:58 [link]

• Pedreschi R., Hertog M., Carpentier S., Lammertyn J., Robben J., Noben J.-P., Panis B., Swennen R. and Nicolai B. M., 2008. Treatment of missing values for multivariate statistical analysis of gel-based proteomics data. Proteomics 8:1371-1383. [link]

• Gilberto Manzo-Sánchez, Marie-Françoise Zapater, Francisco Luna-Martínez, Laura Conde-Ferráez, Jean Carlier, Andrew James-Kay and June Simpson. (2008) Construction of a genetic linkage map of the fungal pathogen of banana Mycosphaerella fijiensis, causal agent of black leaf streak disease., March 2008. Current Genetics. 53 No. 5. [link]

• Santy Peraza-Echeverria  James L. Dale Æ, Rob M. Harding, Mike K. Smith,  Chris Collet. 2008. Characterization of disease resistance gene candidates of the nucleotide binding site (NBS) type from banana and correlation of a transcriptional polymorphism with resistance to Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense race 4. Molecular Breeding. Vol. 22, No.4 (10.1007/s11032-008-9199-x). [link]

• Endah, R., Beyene, G., Kiggundu A., Van den Berg, N., Kunert, K. and Chikwamba, R. (2008)  Elicitor and pathogen-induced expression of NPR-1 like genes in banana. Plant Physiol Biochem. 2008 Nov;46(11):1007-14. [link]

• Khoyratty S, Souza MT, Jaufeerally-Fakim Y (2008) Structural analysis of catalase from two Musa accessions, FHIA18 and Williams, and from Ravenala madagascariensis. In Silico Biology 8, 0032 (2008); [Link]

2007

• J. S. Heslop-Harrison and T. Schwarzacher
  Domestication, Genomics and the Future for Banana
  Ann Bot 2007 100: 1073-1084
  
  
• Carpentier S.C., itters E., Laukens K., Onckelen H.V., Swennen R. and Panis B.
  Banana (Musa spp.) as a model to study the meristem proteome: Acclimation to osmotic stress. Proteomics 2007, 7, 92–105
  
  
• J.H. Caamal-Velazquez a, B.H. Chi-Manzanero a, J.J. Canche-Yama, E. Castano b, L.C. Rodriguez-Zapata.
  Low temperature induce differential expression genes in banana fruits 2007. Scientia Horticulturae 114 (2007) 83-89.
  
  
• Azhar M. and Heslop-Harrison JS.
  Genomes, diversity and resistance gene analogues in Musa species.2008. Cytogenetic and Genome Research In press Dec 2007.
  
  
• Hribova, E., Dolezelova, M., Town, C.D.,   Macas, J., Dolezel, J.:
  Isolation and characterization of the highly repeated fraction of the banana genome. - Cytogenet Genome Res 2007

• Samyn B., Sergeant K., Carpentier S.C., Debyser G., Panis B., Swennen R. and Beeumen J.V.
  Functional Proteome Analysis of the Banana Plant (Musa spp.) Using de Novo Sequence Analysis of Derivatized Peptides. Journal of Proteome Research 2007, 6, 70-80

• Vertommen A., Carpentier S.C., Remmerie N., Witters E., Swennen R. and Panis B.
  Towards The Identification Of Protein Complexes In Banana (Musa spp). Meristems. Comm. Appl. Biol. Sci, Ghent University, 72/1, 2007
  
  
• Carpentier S.C., Dens K., Van den houwe I., Swennen R., Panis B.
  Lyophilization, a practical way to store and transport tissues prior to protein extraction for 2DE analysis? Proteomics 2007 S1: 64-69.
  
  
• Santy Pereza-Echeverria, Andrew James-Kay, Blondy Canto-Canché, Eduardo Castillo-Castro.
  Structural and phylogenetic analysis of Pto-type disease resistance gene candidates in banana. Mol. Genet. Genomics. (2007) DOI 10.1007/s00438-007-0262-9. Print version not yet available.
  
  
• Laura Conde- Ferraez, Cees Waalwijk, Blondy B. Canto.Canche, Gert H.J. Kema, Pedro W. Crous, Andrew C. James Kay and Edwin C.A. Abeln.
  Isolation and characterization of the mating type locus of Mycosphaerella fijiensis, the causal agent of black leaf streak disease of banana. Mol. Plant Pathol. ( 2007) 8(1), 111-120
  
  
• Blondy Canto.Canché, Diana K.Guillén-Maldonado, Leticia Peraza- Echeverria, Laura Conde-Ferráez, Andrew James-Kay.
  Construction and characterization of a bacterial artificial chromosome library of the causal agent of Black Sigatoka fungal leaf spot disease of banana and plantain, Mycosphaerella fijiensis. Mol. Biotechnol. (2007) 36: 64-70
  
  
• C.M. Rodriguez-Garcia, N. Raigosa-Flores, L. Conde-Ferráez, L. Peraza-Echeverria, B. Canto-Canché and A. James-Kay. Can.
  Variation in electrophoretic karyotype among Mexican isolates of Mycosphaerella fijiensis. J. Plant Pathol. (2006) 38: 236-241
  
  
• Thomas J. Oh, Margaret A. Cullis, Karl Kunert, Iris Engelborghs, Rony Swennen and Christopher A. Cullis.
  Genomic changes associated with somaclonal variation in banana (Musa spp.). Physiologia Plantarum Published article online: 12-Feb-2007 doi: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.2007.00858.x
  
  
• Cheung F. and Town C.D
  A BAC end view of the Musa acuminata genome. BMC Plant Biology 2007, 7:29 [link]
  
  
• Thomas-Hall S.,Campbell P.R., Carlens K., Kawanishi E., Swennen R., Laszlo Sagi L., and Schenk P.M.
  Phylogenetic and molecular analysis of the ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase small subunit gene family in banana. Journal of Experimental Botany, 1:13.
  
  
• Remans T.,  Iram S.,  Shuey L., Jaufeerally-Fakim Y. and Schenk P.M.
  Banana Streak Virus: a Highly Diverse Plant Pararetrovirus Plant viruses.
  
  
• Mbeguie-A-Mbeguie D., Hubert O., Sabau X., Chillet M.,  Fils-Lycaon B., And  Baurens F.C. 
  Use of Suppression Subtractive Hybridization approachto identify genes differentially expressed during early banana fruit development undergoing changes in ethylene responsiveness. Plant Science (2007)172: 1025-1036

• H.C. Lohithaswa, F.A. Feltus, H. P. Singh, C.D. Bacon, C. D. Bailey, and A.H. Paterson. 2007. Leveraging rice genome sequence for comparative genomics in monocots. TAG.

• Markku Häkkinen, Chee How Teo, Yasmin Rofina Othman (2007) Genome Constitution for Musa beccarii N.W. Simmonds (Musaceae) varieties. Acta Phytotaxonomica Sinica 2007 45 (1): 69-74 ISSN: 0529-1526 CN: 11-1897/Q

2006

• Juan Bernardo Perez-Hernandez, Rony Swennen and Laszlo Sagi.
  Number and accuracy of T-DNA insertions in transgenic banana (Musa spp.) plants characterized by an improved anchored PCR technique. Transgenic Research (2006) 15:139-150
  
  
• Smith M.K., S.D. Hamill, P.W. Langdon, J.E. Giles, V.J. Doogan & K.G. Pegg.
  Towards the development of a Fusarium wilt race 4 resistant Cavendish banana following gamma irradiation of micropropagated Dwarf Parfitt ( Musa sp., Cavendish (AAA) subgroup). Aust. J. Exp. Agric. (2006). 46(1) 107-113
  
  
• Brand, S., Hoelscher, D., Schierhorn, A., Svatos, A., Schroeder, J., Schneider, B.:
  A type III polyketide synthase from Wachendorfia thyrsiflora and its role in diarylheptanoid and phenylphenalenone biosynthesis. Planta 224, 413 (2006) 

2005

• Bartos J., Alkhimova, O., Dolezelova, M., De Langhe, E., Dolezel, J. 2005.
  Nuclear genome size and genomic distribution of ribosomal DNA in MusaEnsete (Musaceae): taxonomic implications. Cytogenetic and Genome Research 109(1-3): 50-57.
  
  
• Carpentier S.C., Witters E., Laukens K., Deckers P., Swennen R. and Panis B. Preparation of protein extracts from recalcitrant plant tissues: An evaluation of different methods for two-dimensional gel electrophoresis analysis. Proteomics 2005, 5, 2497–2507
  
  
• Buhariwalla H.K., Jarret, R., Jayashree, B., Crouch, J.H., Ortiz, R. 2005.
  Isolation and characterization of microsatellite markers from Musa balbisiana. Molecular Ecology Notes 5: 327-330.
  
  
• Coemans B., H. Matsumura , R. Terauchi , S. Remy , R. Swennen , L. Sagi (2005).
  SuperSAGE combined with PCR walking allows global gene expression profiling of banana (Musa acuminata), a non-model organism. Theor Appl Genet. 2005 Oct;111(6):1118-26.
  
  
• Ge X.J., Liu, M.H., Wang, W.K., Schaal, B.A., Chiang, T.Y. 2005. Population structure of wild bananas, Musa balbisiana, in China determined by SSR fingerprinting and cpDNA PCR-RFLP. Molecular Ecology 14: 933-944.
  
  
• Geering A.D.W., Olszewski, N.O., Harper, G., Lockhart, B.E.L., Hull , R., Thomas, J.E. 2005.
  Banana contains a diverse array of endogenous badnaviruses. Journal of General Virology 86(2): 511-520.
  
  
• Geering A.D.W., M. M. Pooggin, N. E. Olszewski, B. E. L. Lockhart, & J. E. Thomas (2005).
  Characterisation of Banana streak Mysore virus and evidence that its DNA is integrated in the B genome of cultivated Musa. Arch Virol. 2005 Apr;150(4):787-96.
  
  
• Noyer J.L., S. Causse, K. Tomekpe, A. Bouet and F.C. Baurens (2005)
  A new image of plantain diversity assessed by SSR, AFLP and MSAP markers. Genetica May;124(1):61-9..
  
  
• Remans T., Grof, C.P.L., Ebert, P.R., Schenk, P.M. 2005.
  Identification of functional sequences in the pregenomic RNA promoter of the banana streak virus Cavendish strain (BSV-Cav). Virus Research 108(1): 177-186.
  
  
• Remy S., Thiry, E., Coemans, B., Windelinckx, S., Swennen, R., S�gi, L. 2005.
  Improved T-DNA vector for tagging plant promoters via high-throughput luciferase screening. BioTechniques 38(5): 763-770.
  
  
• Rudd S., H-W. Mewes, and K. F.X. Mayer. 2005.
  Sputnik: a database platform for comparative plant genomics. Nucleic Acids Research, 2003,Vol.31,No.1
  
  
• Santos C.M., Martins N.F., Horberg H.M., de Almeida E.R., Coelho M.C., Togawa R.C., da Silva F.R., Caetano A.R., Miller R.N., Souza M.T. Jr. 2005.
  Analysis of expressed sequence tags from Musa acuminata ssp. burmannicoides, var. Calcutta 4 (AA) leaves submitted to temperature stresses. Theor Appl Genet. 2005 May;110(8):1517-22.
  
  
• Nair A S, Teo CH Schwartzecher T and Heslop Harrison J S 2005 Genome classification of banana cultivars from South India using IRAP marker Euphytica 144:285-290
  
  
• Ortiz-Vazquez E., D. Kaemmer, H-B. Zhang, J. Muth, M. Rodriguez- Mendiola, C.Arias-Castro and Andrew James. 2005.
  Construction and characterisation of a BIBAC genomic library for the diploid banana cultivar Musa acuminata cv.Tuu Gia. Theor. Appl. Genet. 110: 706-713.
  
  
• Xu C X, Panis B, Strosse H et al.
  Establishment of embryogenic cell suspensions and plant regeneration of the dessert banana Williams (Musa AAA group). Journal of Horticultural science and biotechnology, 2005, 80(5): 523-528 

2004

• Aert R., Sagi, L., Volckaert, G. 2004.
  Gene content and density in banana (Musa acuminata) as revealed by genomic sequencing of BAC clones. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 109(1): 129-139.
  
  
• Bhat K.V., Amaravathi, Y., Gautam, P.L., Velayudhan, K.C. 2004. AFLP characterization and genetic diversity analysis of indian banana and plantain cultivars (Musa spp.). Plant Genetic Resources 2(2): 121-130.
  
  
• Khanna H., Becker, D., Kleidon, J., Dale, J. 2004.
  Centrifugation assisted Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation (CAAT) of embryogenic cell suspensions of banana (Musa spp. 'Cavendish' AAA and 'Lady finger' AAB). Molecular Breeding 14(3): 239-252.
  
  
• Onguso J.M., Kahangi, E.M., Ndiritu, D.W., Mizutani, F. 2004. Genetic characterization of cultivated bananas and plantains in Kenya by RAPD markers. Scientia Horticulturae 99(1): 9-20.
  
  
• Ramage C.M., Borda, A.M., Hamill , S.D. , Smith, M.K. 2004.
  A simplified PCR test for early detection of 'Dwarf' off-types in micropropagated 'Cavendish' bananas (Musa spp. AAA). Scientia Horticulturae 103(1): 135-138.
  
  
• Ruiz M., Rouard, M., Raboin, L.M., Lartaud, M., Lagoda, P., Courtois, B. 2004.
  TropGENE-DB, a multi-tropical crop information system. Nucleic Acids Research 32(Suppl. 1): D364-D367.
  
  
• Safar J., Noa-Carrazana, J.C., Vrana, J., Bartos, J., Alkhimova, O., Sabau, X., Simkova, H., Lheureux, F., Caruana, M.L., Dolezel, J., Piffanelli, P. 2004.
  Creation of a BAC resource to study the structure and evolution of the banana (Musa balbisiana) genome. Genome 47(6): 1182-1191.