Banana cultivar groups
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Almost all modern edible banana and plantain cultivars are hybrids and polyploids of the wild, seeded bananas Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana. They are almost always seedless (parthenocarpic) and hence sterile, so they are propagated vegetatively. They are classified according to a genome-based system introduced by Ernest Cheesman, Norman Simmonds, and Ken Shepherd.
'A' refers to the genotype of Musa acuminata, while 'B' represents the genotype of Musa balbisiana. Repetition of any of these genotypes represents polyploidy, while a mixture of both represents hybridization. Polyploids of Musa acuminata are usually dessert bananas while polyploids of Musa balbisiana and hybrids of the two are usually plantains or cooking bananas.[1][2][3][4]
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[edit] AA group
- Diploid Musa acuminata Wild banana
- Chingan banana
- Lacatan banana
- Lady Finger banana (Sugar banana)
- Pisang jari buaya (Crocodile fingers banana)
- Señorita banana (Monkoy, Arnibal banana, Cuarenta dias, Cariñosa, Pisang Empat Puluh Hari, Pisang Lampung)
- Sinwobogi banana
[edit] AAA group
- Triploid Musa acuminata Wild banana
- Cavendish banana (Dwarf Cavendish banana)
- Dwarf Red banana
- Giant Cavendish banana (Williams)
- Gros Michel banana
- Grand Nain (Chiquita banana)
- Masak Hijau banana
- Red banana (Red Dacca banana)
- Robusta banana
- East African Highland bananas (AAA-EA subgroup)
[edit] AAAA group
- Tetraploid Musa acuminata Wild banana
- Bodles Altafort banana
- Golden Beauty banana
[edit] AAAB group
[edit] AAB group
- Black French banana
- Bungaoisan banana
- Celat banana
- Dwarf French plantain
- French plantain
- Giant banana
- Green French banana
- Laknao banana
- Latundan banana (Silk banana, Apple banana)
- Maqueño banana
- Mysore banana
- Pink French banana
- Pisang Serbu
- Pome banana
- Popoulu banana
- Prata-anã (Dwarf Brazilian banana, Dwarf Prata)
- Red plantain
- Rhino Horn banana
- Tiger banana
[edit] AABB group
- Kalamagol banana
- Pisang Awak (Ducasse banana)
[edit] AB group
[edit] ABB group
- Blue Java banana (Ice Cream banana)
- Bluggoe banana
- Saba banana
- Silver Bluggoe banana
[edit] ABBB group
[edit] BB group
- Diploid Musa balbisiana Wild banana
[edit] BBB group
- Triploid Musa balbisiana Wild banana
- Cardaba (Wild Saba banana)
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Banana cultivar names and synonyms in Southeast Asia by Ramón V. Valmayor at Google Books
- ^ Michel H. Porcher; Prof. Snow Barlow (19/07/2002). "Sorting Musa names". The University of Melbourne, [1]. http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Musa.html. Retrieved 11 January 2011.
- ^ "Musa paradisiaca". http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~drc/mparadisiaca.htm
- ^ Michel H. Porcher; Prof. Snow Barlow. "Sorting Musa names". http://www.ars-grin.gov/. http://www.ars-grin.gov/misc/mmpnd/Musa.html
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