Here's a post I made on another list that might be of interest to those on this list: >Message-Id: <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >From: "Thomas E. Billings" <[log in to unmask]> >Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 09:29:18 -0800 (PST) >Subject: [ivu-sci] banana information source The susceptibility of the commercial banana to diseases, and the spectre of extinction (as a commercial crop), has been in the news of late. An excellent resource for info on bananas is the website of the International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain, homepage at: http://www.inibap.org The website is also available in French, and Spanish-- see links at URL above. The URLs listed below are for information in English. They have a press release on the recent news at: "Just how far are bananas from extinction?" http://www.inibap.org/new/release2101.doc They have a variety of publications online at: http://www.inibap.org/publications/publications_eng.htm The page above has links to documents on banana diversity, nutrition, taxonomy, genomics, etc. The "Proceedings, Monographs, Reports" section of the above URL includes papers on wild bananas amd organic banana cultivation. A wealth of scientific information is available there. PS thanks to Asit K. Ghosh on the rarefruit yahoogroups email list for publicizing the INIBAP website. Tom Billings