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Banana Genome INFO
No offense intended Defined:
or·na·men·tal (ôrn-mntl)---- just another word
adj.
Of, relating to, or serving as an ornament or decoration.
n.
Something that serves as ornamentation, especially a plant grown for its beauty.
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That's what I would have thought! But people seem to talk as if ornamentals were a clearly-defined subset of banana plants in general. If it just means growing them because they're pretty, I'll relax.
Does the presence of seeds have nothing to do with it?
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That was probably my first real question tooo..... I found all BBB/BB Genome species of bananas have seeds and some can still be ate....Some have small seed some have biggG.
AAAA/AAA/AA genome are bananas w/o seed, usually in stores
ABB/AAB/AABB/ABBB are plantains and have no seeds also but banana family.
ALLLLL bananas are considered edible because they contain nothing poison or toxic to humans....might not taste good.
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Banana allergy is related to avocado and latex somehow.
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I know about that; my eldest has a severe allergy to rubber latex. So I know a lot more than I'm happy to. It's a question of the proteins in the stuff; there are 14 or 16 in latex, and certain of the same ones are in banana, avocado, also sweet chestnuts and a horde of other things. Luckily he isn't allergic to any of the other foods known to be cross-reactive with latex. - or by now I'd have forgotten about liking to eat bananas! But allergy of course is quite separate from edibility.
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Genomes are a bit techy for me, for now anyway.
That plantain pdf isn't opening (it might tomorrow) but I have now worked out that a plantain is a banana you can fry - at least that seems like the distinction.
ps. It did open. That's the level of detail I'll get into as the bananabug infects me more deeply - assuming this new passion doesn't flicker n fade (dare I think it? (fickle serial obsesser))... that's the level of detail I tend to get into with things sooner or later but not at the very beginning.
No offence taken by the way.