Bananavariety
TARIBAN4
Also known as NARITA 23
NARITA 23
TARIBAN4 is an East African matooke cooking banana released in Tanzania in 2021, bred from the East African highland variety Kazirakwe and an IITA diploid male parent.
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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
- original summary
- The reported cross used the East African highland cultivar Kazirakwe and an IITA diploid male parent.
- ploidy
- triploid
- parents
- Kazirakwe, TMB2 × 7197-2
- 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
- 3.27
- 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
- 32.7
- yield potential tonnes per hectare per year
- 20.3
- breeding program institutions
- NARO, Uganda, IITA
- source reported genetic generation
- primary