Publications

Below are some key open access publications from MusaNet or MusaNet members since 1996.

The Globa Musa Strategy

2016 – Global Musa Strategy and the Global Musa Strategy Summary Booklet

Technical guidelines

2021 – Practical Guidelines for Early Screening and Field Evaluation of Banana against Fusarium Wilt, Pseudocercospora Leaf Spots and Drought

2017 – Minimum List of Descriptors for East African Highland Bananas

2016 – Minimum List of Descriptors for Plantains

2015 – MusaNet Technical Guidelines for the Safe Movement of Musa Germplasm. 3rd Edition

2010 – Minimum List of Descriptors for Musa

2010 – Minimum Set of Photos for Bananas (English and Spanish)

2009 – Cryopreservation of Musa germplasm. Technical Guidelines No. 9
Crioconservación de germoplasma de Musa. Guías técnicas 9 (Spanish)
Cryoconservation de matériel génétique de bananier. Guide technique 9 (French)

2003 – Banana and plantain embryogenic cell suspensions. INIBAP Technical Guidelines No. 8
Suspensiones de células embriogénicas de banano. Guías técnicas INIBAP 8 (Spanish)
Suspensions cellulaires embryogènes de bananiers et bananiers plantain. Guide technique INIBAP 8 (French)

1996 – Descriptors for banana (Musa spp.)
Descriptores para el banano (Musa spp.) (Spanish)
Descripteurs pour le bananier (Musa spp.) (French)

Diversity studies

2024 – Painting the diversity of a world’s favourite fruit: A next generation catalogue of cultivated bananas

2024 – Musa species in mainland Southeast Asia: From wild to domesticate

2022 – Interspecific introgression patterns reveal the origins of worldwide cultivated bananas in New Guinea

2022 – Hybridization, missing wild ancestors and the domestication of cultivated diploid bananas

2018 – Collection of new diversity of wild and cultivated bananas (Musa spp.) in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea

2017 – Banana Collecting Mission in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville (AROB), Papua New Guinea

1999 – A tribute to the work of Paul Allen: A catalogue of wild and cultivated bananas

Catalogues

2024 – A Genomic Catalog of Cultivated Bananas

2023 – The Wild Bananas: a catalogue of wild Musa species and tribute to Markku Häkkinen

2021 – Bananas of Samoa: A catalogue of banana diversity seen on the island of Upolu

2021 – Bananas of West New Britain Papua New Guinea

2021 – Bananas of Cook Islands: A catalog of banana diversity seen on the islands of Rarotonga and Aitutaki

2018 – Musalogue: Catalogue de germoplasme de Musa, Plantains d’Afrique occidentale et centrale – Collection CARBAP (French)
Musalogue: Catalogue of Musa germplasm, West and Central African plantains – CARBAP collection (English)

2018 – A Catalogue of Some Musa ITC Reference Collections Grown in the Philippines

2017 – Bananas of The Autonomous Region of Bougainville: A catalog of banana diversity seen on the islands of Bougainville and Buka, Papua New Guinea

2016 – Musa Taxonomic Reference Collection Catalog

2016 – Catalog of Musa Accessions Maintained by USDA-ARS TARS

2015 – Final report on the characterization and evaluation of 31 accessions of the Taxonomic Reference Collection

2007 – Catalogue of introduced and local banana cultivars in the Philippines: Results of a demonstration trial by the Institute of Plant Breeding, University of the Philippines Los Baños

2001 – Musalogue: A catalogue of Musa germplasm. Diversity in the genus Musa

2008 – Identification and characterization guide for FHIA banana and plantain hybrids
Guía para la identificación y caracterización de bananos y plátanos híbridos de la FHIA (Spanish)

1997 – Musalogue: a catalogue of Musa germplasm. Papua New Guinea collecting missions, 1988-1989