Open AccessEnset in Ethiopia: a poorly characterized but resilient starch staple
Author(s) -
James S. Borrell,
Manosh Kumar Biswas,
Mark Goodwin,
Guy Blomme,
Trude Schwarzacher,
J. S. HeslopHarrison,
Abebe Wendawek,
Admas Berhanu,
Simon Kallow,
Steven B. Janssens,
Ermias Lulekal,
Aaron P. Davis,
Feleke Woldeyes,
Katherine J. Willis,
Sebsebe Demissew,
Paul Wilkin
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
annals of botany
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.567
H-Index - 176
eISSN - 1095-8290
pISSN - 0305-7364
DOI - 10.1093/aob/mcy214
Subject(s) - germplasm , biology , staple food , crop , musaceae , food security , adaptability , domestication , agroforestry , fodder , agroecology , agriculture , agronomy , microbiology and biotechnology , ecology , botany
Enset (Ensete ventricosum, Musaceae) is an African crop that currently provides the staple food for approx. 20 million Ethiopians. Whilst wild enset grows over much of East and Southern Africa and the genus extends across Asia to China, it has only ever been domesticated in the Ethiopian Highlands. Here, smallholder farmers cultivate hundreds of landraces across diverse climatic and agroecological systems.
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