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Re: Wild bananas for wildlife and food security - Singapore
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Originally Posted by raygrogan
You must have looked into the genetics so help us guys who can't remember well - isn't there something about the commercial bananas being "Tripoid" = having three sets of chromosomes and therefore have a hard time dividing in half to make pollen and eggs that work. There must be some tricks that the pros use to do regular banana breeding.
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IITA - Breeding
Ikisan - Breeding and crop improvement in banana
Last edited by sunfish : 11-24-2012 at 10:16 PM.
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