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Basjoofriend · 07-05-2006, 07:49 AM

Hi,

I don't understand why Musa basjoo is not used to cross it with fruit bananas to get hardy fruit bananas for cold climate, e. g. for Germany and colder areas of the USA.

But one friend, one researcher and genetic engineer in Vienna/Austria has bred triploid and polyploid Musa basjoo in his laboratory. It will be a hardy cook banana with seedless fruits. He has success to regenerate plants from tissue culture.

It's very difficulty to cross triploid and tetraploid bananas on the sexual way. I read here 10 seeds per 20,000 fruits! But it's possible to make crosses in the laboratory by DNA fusions.

Best wishes
Joachim

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