STATISTICAL TOOLS TO EVALUATE SENSORY DATA FOR TESTING FRUIT QUALITY OF MUSA

Recent successes in the conventional cross-breeding of plantains and cooking bananas by genetic improvement programmes will inevitably lead to an increase in the number of new clones that require testing before release to farmers. In most cases testing focused on disease resistance and yield but little attention was given to fruit quality. The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) has developed a procedure for testing the fruit quality of landraces and hybrid Musa genotypes...STATISTICAL TOOLS TO EVALUATE SENSORY DATA FOR TESTING FRUIT QUALITY OF MUSA