01107nam a2200157 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001910000170006024500440007726000400012130000090016152007170017065300240088770000210091170000170093216385222014-01-13       1986    bl uuuu     u0uu1 u    #d1 aSHEPHERD, K.  aThe banana breeding programe in Brazil.  aCruz das Almas: EMBRAPA-CNPMFc1986  a23p.  aThe Brazilian banana breeding programme is located in the Centro Nacional de Pesquisa de Mandioca e Fruticultura (CNPMF), one of the national centres of the Empresa Brasileira de pesquisa Agropecuaria (EMBRAPA0, situated at Cruz  das Almas in Bahia State. The programme effectively started with the first controlled pollinations of inflorescences at the end of 1982, although at that time the useful available germplasm was severely restricted. The initial collection included the country's cultivars, with some duplications and a very few omissions, and with fertile diploid material comprising five accessions of wild Musa acuminata, received as seeds from Jamaica, three of M. balbisiana and one of M. ornata.  aBanana-melhoramento1 aDANTAS, J. L. L.1 aALVES, E. J.