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TARIBAN1

Also known as NARITA 4

NARITA 4

TARIBAN1 is an East African matooke cooking banana released in Tanzania in 2021, with pointed fruit tips and a blunt bract tip.

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Taste & texture

Used for
matooke cooking banana

How to spot it

Shape
Pointed fruit tips

Field notes

Original source notes
african breeding observations
food use
matooke cooking banana
release events
year
2021
status
source reported
date note
Paper states June 2021, while a later IITA announcement says March 2021. Year is used pending reconciliation.
precision
year
event type
release
country code
TZ
original summary
Pointed fruit tips and an obtuse bract tip distinguish the source material.
ploidy
triploid
parents
660K-1, TMB2 × 9128-3
source publication year
2022
sensory study observation
scale max
5
scale min
1
scale anchors
extreme dislike to extreme liking
comparator name
Mbwazirume
preparation context
Boiled fruit; Lyamungo participants also assessed machalari and mtori.
panel size
more than 300 banana farmers across three Tanzanian sites
overall acceptability mean
3.58
comparator overall acceptability mean
4.15
multisite trial observations
scope
Research-site means, not expected farm yields or universal cultivar constants.
source sites
Maruku, Tanzania, Mitalula, Tanzania, Lyamungo, Tanzania
trial period
2016–2019
crop cycles in table mean
first two crop cycles
mean bunch mass kg per plant
26.9
yield potential tonnes per hectare per year
15.7
breeding program institutions
NARO, Uganda, IITA
source reported genetic generation
secondary
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