To'o

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To'o is the local name of a diploid dessert banana collected in the Madang area of Papua New Guinea1 .

Local names

Fu Des (West Sepik province of Papua New Guinea)1 .

Morphological characteristics

To'o has a medium stature plant. It produces long (10-20 cm)1 , curved and slender fruits with prononced ridges. The fruit apex is lenghtily pointed.

Agronomic performance

The agronomic performance of To'o has been evaluated over three cropping cycles in 2 sites in Burundi and 3 sites each in the South and North Kivu provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The values are averages of 8-10 plants evaluated over 3 cropping cycles at each of the 8 sites.

Trait	Value
Plant height at flowering (cm)	250.3
Pseudostem girth at base at flowering (cm)	65.0
Time from flowering to harvest (days)	111.9
Bunch weight (kg)	4.3
Number of hands	4.2
Number of fingers	32.2
Fruit circumference (cm)	9.1
Fruit length (cm)	18.8
Number of functional leaves at flowering	8.7

Nutritional value

The mean content in pro-vitamin A carotenoids of 3 ripe samples from North Kivu was 7,765 µg/100 g (fresh weight)2 . Based on this value, the consumption of 100 g of ripe fresh pulp (approximately one finger) would contain 544 µg Retinol Activity Equivalent, or more than the daily recommended intake of Vitamin A for children under 5 years (400 RAE µg/day) and 75% of the daily recommended intake of Vitamin A for adult women (700 RAE µg/day).

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