Methods for vegetative propagation of wild enset (Ensete ventricosum (Welw.) Cheesman) that make genotype conservation possible

The declining trends in crop wild relative genetic resources in many crop centers of origins including Ethiopia require short and long-term conservation strategies. Enset (Ensete ventricosum) is arguably the most important cultivated food security crop of Ethiopia with dwindling wild stocks. The cultivated enset is propagated clonally through adventitious bud sprouting from the corm after the distraction of the apical meristem. Shoot...