Origins and domestication of cultivated banana inferred from chloroplast and nuclear genes.

Cultivated bananas are large, vegetatively-propagated members of the genus Musa. More than 1,000 cultivars are grown worldwide and they are major economic and food resources in numerous developing countries. It has been suggested that cultivated bananas originated from the islands of Southeast Asia...

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Main Authors: Lin-Feng Li, Hua-Ying Wang, Cui Zhang, Xin-Feng Wang, Feng-Xue Shi, Wen-Na Chen, Xue-Jun Ge
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3832372?pdf=render