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Old 10-08-2006, 12:55 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Default Re: Scientific names

Scientific names and latin names are two different things. Scientific naming is commonly based on latin names.

While the convention:
Musa 'cultivar name' (ploidy level)

may be acceptable, and I prefer it myself, it is not based completely on latin names.

while ploidy level is specified, certainly it doesn't tell us what the parent cultivars are.

Just a cultivar name for me would suffice, but how do we technically name these scientifically when we have composition of several species chromosomes lumped up into each cell?
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