Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for Banana Hybridization

The purpose of this document is to describe the SOPs for banana breeding activities and data management. These activities include crossing, evaluation trial establishment, phenotyping, selection in both early evaluation and preliminary yield trials, sensory evaluation, biophysical and biochemical analysis, selection to advanced yield trial, participatory on farm testing using the mother-baby trial approach, variety release procedure and cultivar registration, data analysis, quality checks to ensure germplasm is still true to type, SNP genotyping of new hybrids for future use in GWAS or GEBV for selection and germplasm management.