druss

The fact that the wild sp are all diploid should limit the ploidy variation to just the domesticated side. Im hoping to purchase a tissue culture kit (kitchen kulture maybe) to eventually do some cloning . I did consider using this and colchicine to up the ploidy of the wild sp but I have no way of verifying success afterwards. The possibility is there for example to create YyYy tetraploids that could be pollinated to give AYy, AaYy. It would also be useful to incorporate more than one species. I.e. if I crossed griersonii with yunnanensis to get a GY hybrid diploid. If I doubled that to get a GYGY and crossed the result with domestic Acuminatas I could end up with AGY and AaGY. These tetraploids could have benefits as more copies of the wild genes should mean better expression of their traits but it starts to move out of the realm of what I can test and achieve. I think I can realize my goals without going this far. But out of curiosity do labs to the testing on contract? In this vein Im also sticking to the same gene count and section. There are ABT crosses but they dont show any advantages that Im looking for. Also I did consider the rhodochlamys section for shorter cycling and they seem tough but I already have three species, four If I get griersonii and once I start growing enough to try get flowering at the same time thats alot of banana plants.