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Medeiros, M. B., Valls, J. F. M., Abreu, A. G., Heiden, G., Ribeiro-Silva, S., José, S. C. B. R., ... & Burle, M. L. (2021). Status of the Ex-Situ and In Situ Conservation of Brazilian Crop Wild Relatives of Rice, Potato, Sweet Potato, and Finger Millet: Filling the Gaps of Germplasm Collections. Agronomy 2021, 11, 638.

Eyland, D., Breton, C., Sardos, J., Kallow, S., Panis, B., Swennen, R., ... & Carpentier, S. C. (2021). Filling the gaps in gene banks: Collecting, characterizing, and phenotyping wild banana relatives of Papua New Guinea. Crop Science, 61(1), 137-149.

Bashir, I., Nicolao, R., & Heiden, G. (2021). Wild Potatoes: A Genetic Reservoir for Potato Breeding. In Wild Germplasm for Genetic Improvement in Crop Plants (pp. 215-240). Academic Press.

Lee, K. J., Sebastin, R., Cho, G. T., Yoon, M., Lee, G. A., & Hyun, D. Y. (2021). Genetic Diversity and Population Structure of Potato Germplasm in RDA-Genebank: Utilization for Breeding and Conservation. Plants, 10(4), 752.

Singh, S., Agrawal, A., Kumar, R., Thangjam, R., & John, K. J. (2021). Seed storage behavior of Musa balbisiana Colla, a wild progenitor of bananas and plantains-Implications for ex situ germplasm conservation. Scientia Horticulturae, 280, 109926.

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Worojie, T. B., Asfaw, B. T., & Mengesha, W. A. (2021). Cultivation and possible domestication of feral and possibly wild yams (Dioscorea spp.) in Southwest Ethiopia: ethnobotanical and morphological evidence. Plant Signaling & Behavior, 1879531.

Banana

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Uma, S. 2006. Farmers' knowledge of wild Musa in India. FAO, Roma (ITA). 46p. http://www.fao.org/docrep/011/i0548e/i0548e00.htm

Yoshida S. 1980. Cultivated bananas among the Galela. Senri Ethnological Studies. 7: 119-139.

Kagy, V. and Carreel, F. 2004. Bananas in New Caledonian Kanak society: their socio- cultural value in relation with their origins. Ethnobotany Research and Applications 2(1):29-35. http://journals.sfu.ca/era/index.php/era/article/view/35

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Yam

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Dansi A, Mignouna HD, Zoundjihekpon J, Sangare A, Asiedu R, Quin FM (1999) Morphological diversity, cultivar groups and possible descent in the cultivated yams (Dioscorea cayenensis/D-rotundata) complex in Benin Republic. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 46(4):371–388. https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1008698123887 

Obidiegwu J, Loureiro J, Ene-Obong E, Rodriguez E, Kolesnikova-Allen M, Santos C, Muoneke C, Asiedu R (2009) Ploidy level studies on the Dioscorea cayenensis/Dioscorea rotundata complex core set. Euphytica 169(3):319–326. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10681-009-9960-1 

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Sharif BM, Burgarella C, Cormier F, Mournet P, Causse S, Van KN, Kaoh J, Rajaonah MT, Lakshan SR, Waki J, Bhattacharjee R, Badara G, Pachakkil B, Arnau G, Chaïr H (2020) Genome-wide genotyping elucidates the geographical diversification and dispersal of the polyploid and clonally propagated yam (Dioscorea alata). Annals of Botany 126(6):1029–1038. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcaa122 

Sugihara Y, Darkwa K, Yaegashi H, Natsume S, Shimizu M, Abe A, Hirabuchi A, Ito K, Oikawa K, Tamiru-Oli M, Ohta A, Matsumoto R, Agre P, Koeyer DD, Pachakkil B, Yamanaka S, Muranaka S, Takagi H, White B, Asiedu R, Innan H, Asfaw A, Adebola P, Terauchi R (2020) Genome analyses reveal the hybrid origin of the staple crop white Guinea yam (Dioscorea rotundata). PNAS 117(50):31987–31992. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2015830117 

Vandenbroucke H, Mournet P, Vignes H, Chaïr H, Malapa R, Duval MF, Lebot V (2016) Somaclonal variants of taro (Colocasia esculenta Schott) and yam (Dioscorea alata L.) are incorporated into farmers’ varietal portfolios in Vanuatu. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 63(3):495–511 

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