October 2015

Assessment of agro-morphological diversity and affinities in cocoyam species from Sierra Leone

Lack of knowledge of genetic variation within cocoyam germplasm limits its effective utilization in developing ideotypes with desirable traits for various end-uses. An agro-phenotypic characterization study was therefore conducted at the Njala Agricultural Research Centre (NARC) experimental site, Sierra Leone. The aim of the study was to evaluate the level of diversity within cocoyam germplasm using factor, cluster and...

Author(s): Prince E. Norman, Jenneh F. Bebeley, Aloysius A. Beah and Edward F. Sellu