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Old 11-24-2012, 10:10 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Default Re: Wild bananas for wildlife and food security - Singapore

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Originally Posted by raygrogan View Post
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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