Bananavariety
TARIBAN3
Also known as NARITA 18
NARITA 18
TARIBAN3 is an East African matooke cooking banana released in Tanzania in 2021; in Tanzanian tasting trials it scored highest among the four hybrid selections, though the local Mbwazirume variety still scored higher overall.
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Taste & texture
- Used for
- matooke cooking banana
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
- source caution
- The paper describes this secondary triploid as the offspring of two named primary tetraploid selections. The parentage and ploidy statements are reported separately; no genetic mechanism is inferred.
- original summary
- This selection had the highest mean overall sensory score among the four hybrids in the reported Tanzanian tests, while the local Mbwazirume comparator scored higher.
- ploidy
- triploid
- parents
- 365K-1, 660K-1
- 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
- 3.91
- 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
- 26.5
- yield potential tonnes per hectare per year
- 16
- breeding program institutions
- NARO, Uganda, IITA
- source reported genetic generation
- secondary