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Originally Posted by PR-Giants
Tell me the seeded wild Musa vars I need & I'll get'em.
I had a large seed in a Rhino Horn a few months ago.
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My Diety!
No doubt PR, because of your large collection
(...green with envy!). My advice: germinate everything you get.
I'm trying to breed diploid pathenocarpic balbisiana; and lately, because of prompting from some local Government agronomists, decent Cavendish/Gros Michel derived types.
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Originally Posted by raygrogan
I was going to grow a plantain or saba ... but I think it was Gabe here that told me that they tend to "hide" BBTV - don't show symptoms very quickly. I get the impression that BBTV affects different bananas very differently. Anyway, just looking for a reasonably tasty banana that will do well with BBTV.
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I'd like to breed the Apple or Silk types; but 1st I'd have to get around the male infertility by pollinating Silk with diploid balbisiana. Hopefully, the B genome content would harbour some kind of partial resistance to the BBTV that
Ray Grogan speaks about in his B genome containing bananas.
This is a lot of work. I have the field of Silk up. But no personnel to do the pollinations and then to sieve the ripe bunches (the fingers of the oldest hand of a banana bunch have to tree ripen for best natural sowing results).
I've begun to
pollinate Orinoco females with balbisiana pollen - and I'm hoping for seed in the next two months. Saba & Pelipita are next. The ABB cultivars are thought to be more seed fertile than the AAAs and AABs.
Ray, I see you're in contact with Gabe. By now he must be postdoc. I wish I had his collection!
shannon
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