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Unravelling the complex story of intergenomic recombination in ABB allotriploid bananas.
Annals of botany - 1 Jan 2021
Cenci Alberto, Sardos Julie, Hueber Yann, Martin Guillaume, Breton Catherine, Roux Nicolas, Swennen Rony, Carpentier Sebastien Christian, Rouard Mathieu
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Bananas (Musa spp.) are a major staple food for hundreds of millions of people in developing countries. The cultivated varieties are seedless and parthenocarpic clones of which the ancestral origin remains to be clarified. The most important cultivars are triploids with an AAA, AAB or ABB genome constitution, with A and B genomes provided by M. acuminata and M. balbisiana, respectively....
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