Rony Swennen

Research interests

Publications

• Molecular and cytological characterization of the global Musa germplasm collection provides insights into the treasure of banana diversity

  Biodiversity and Conservation · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-016-1273-9

• Correction: Corrigendum: Differential root transcriptomics in a polyploid non-model crop: the importance of respiration during osmotic stress

  Scientific Reports · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1038/srep25683

• Evolutionary dynamics and biogeography of M usaceae reveal a correlation between the diversification of the banana family and the geological and climatic history of Southeast Asia

  New Phytologist · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.13856

• Phenalenone-type phytoalexins mediate resistance of banana plants ( Musa spp.) to the burrowing nematode Radopholus similis

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1314168110

• From crossbreeding to biotechnology-facilitated improvement of banana and plantain

  Biotechnology Advances · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biotechadv.2013.09.010

• Extraction and partial characterization of polyphenol oxidase from banana (Musa acuminata Grande naine) roots

  Plant Physiology and Biochemistry · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plaphy.2006.06.005

• Effects of plant phenylpropanoid pathway products and selected terpenoids and alkaloids on the behaviour of the plant-parasitic nematodes Radopholus similis, Pratylenchus penetrans and Meloidogyne incognita

  Nematology · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1163/156854106776179953

• Experimental identification of CO2–water–rock interactions caused by sequestration of CO2 in Westphalian and Buntsandstein sandstones of the Campine Basin (NE-Belgium)

  Journal of Geochemical Exploration · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gexplo.2005.11.005

• Development of embryogenic cell suspensions from shoot meristematic tissue in bananas and plantains (Musa spp.)

  Plant Science · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plantsci.2005.08.007

• High-throughput determination of malondialdehyde in plant tissues

  Analytical Biochemistry · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ab.2005.09.041

• Preparation of protein extracts from recalcitrant plant tissues: An evaluation of different methods for two‐dimensional gel electrophoresis analysis

  PROTEOMICS · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1002/pmic.200401222

• Banana improvement : cellular, molecular biology, and induced mutations

  Science Publishers eBooks · 2004

• Droplet vitrification of apical meristems: a cryopreservation protocol applicable to all Musaceae

  Plant Science · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plantsci.2004.07.022

• Cryopreservation for the elimination of cucumber mosaic and banana streak viruses from banana (Musa spp.)

  Plant Cell Reports · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s00299-002-0458-8

• First archaeological evidence of banana cultivation in central Africa during the third millennium before present

  Vegetation History and Archaeobotany · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1007/pl00013367

• Genetic Transformation of Banana and Plantain (Musa spp.) via Particle Bombardment

  Nature Biotechnology · 1995 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0595-481

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