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Did backcrossing contribute to the origin of hybrid edible bananas?
Annals of botany - 1 Dec 2010
De Langhe Edmond, Hribová Eva, Carpentier Sebastien, Dolezel Jaroslav, Swennen Rony
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BACKGROUND: Bananas and plantains (Musa spp.) provide a staple food for many millions of people living in the humid tropics. The cultivated varieties (cultivars) are seedless parthenocarpic clones of which the origin remains unclear. Many are believed to be diploid and polyploid hybrids involving the A genome diploid M. acuminata and the B genome M. balbisiana, with the hybrid genomes consisting of a simple...
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