Banana production in Venezuela : novel solutions to productivity and plant health / Barlin Orlando Olivares Campos.
Olivares Campos, Barlin Orlando, author.
2023
SB379.B2
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Title Banana production in Venezuela : novel solutions to productivity and plant health / Barlin Orlando Olivares Campos.
Author Olivares Campos, Barlin Orlando, author.
ISBN 9783031344756 (electronic bk.)
3031344758 (electronic bk.)
9783031344749
303134474X
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34475-6
Published Cham : Springer, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxi, 176 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-34475-6 doi
Call Number SB379.B2
Dewey Decimal Classification 634/.772
Summary This book presents an important contribution to the knowledge of the banana soils of Venezuela. Banana, the edible fruit of Musaceae, is a staple food for more than 400 million people worldwide due to their nutritional and energy attributes. This makes Musaceae a crop of worldwide relevance, particularly in tropical regions, highlighting the impact of improved Musaceae cropping systems in the current efforts worldwide oriented towards a new agricultural revolution based on sustainable intensification. To achieve this, better practices for food production based on scientific and technical research capable to consider the complexity and variability within the agri-food sector are necessary. The research presented in this book is oriented towards providing answers to the causes of two aspects considered of high relevance for banana production, both affecting productivity and sustainability, always addressed for the Venezuelan conditions, one of the world’s largest producing countries: 1- The impact of phytosanitary risks related to Fusarium Wilt (FW) and the influence of the soil on the incidence of Banana Wilt (BW); and 2- An observed trend towards loss of productivity and decline of soil quality in some commercial farms of Aragua and Trujillo states in Venezuela. The book presents a pioneering study in the application of categorical regression (CATREG) in the characterization of banana soils and analyses soil morphological variables, such as texture, dry consistency, biological activity, reaction to HCl, and type of structure to characterize soil productivity for growing healthy bananas. It develops, for the first time in Venezuela, risk analysis and climatic suitability maps for lethal wilt disease in bananas caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense (Foc) Tropical Race 4 (TR4) (syn. Fusarium odoratissimum). Innovative machine learning techniques are used to predict BW so that future crop development can be done more efficiently and sustainably.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed July 19, 2023).
Series Latin American studies book series, 2366-343X
Available in Other Form Print version: 9783031344749
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Chapter1. Research Background
Chapter2. Methodological framework
Chapter3. Fusarium Wilt of Bananas: A threat to the banana production systems in Venezuela
Chapter4. Evaluation of the incidence of banana wilt and its relationship with soil properties
Chapter5. Identification of the main soil variables correlated with banana productivity
Chapter6. Potential use of soil morphological properties to differentiate levels of banana productivity
Chapter7. Discussion and Conclusions.

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