Aki

I want to know the real nature of "Kluai NamWa ".
I think "Kluai NamWa "to be the source of the NamWa group.
However, I do not understand real nature.
Are parents of "Kluai NamWa "whom and whom?

A certain person says.
"The parent of "Kluai NamWa is "wild banana" and "Musa Tanee"

I want to know the truth.
Please teach me the truth.

shannondicorse

Hello Aki,

Kluai Nam Wa is generally considered to be in the "awak" group of ABB cooking bananas.

This means that namwa has one set of chromosomes from Musa acuminata and two sets from Musa balbisiana. "Tani" is, if I remember correctly, a Musa balbisiana...

This relationship to awak has been determined on possibly cursory morphological grounds. There are many other groups of ABB bananas - especially in India. No doubt their balbisiana ancestry is totally different.

However, non-one knows for sure. Banana parentage of cultigens can be gleaned from analysis of their cytoplasmic type - that is distinctive DNA haplotypes present in their mitochondrial and chloroplast DNA.

But beware! To really understand banana ancestry we have to build "robust" DNA probes that differentiate the ancestors.

In many Indian varieties, for example, homoeologous recombination between the A chromosomes and the B chromosomes occur on a large scale. So genetic testing with small numbers of primers lead to sometimes radicaly different cionclusions.

Under some primers we see an AAA while with another primer set we see AAB or even ABB.

So...what I am saying is: Banana parentage determination is still in its infancy... but please be patient! In 5 years or so...we'll have the facts!

I hope we will all be more enlightened in 5 more years...


shannon

Aki

Hello shannondicorse
You gave me polite, precious information.
I thank for it very much.
It is so. We need patience and time to get something.
Please keep in touch

Aki

You gave me polite, precious information.
I thank for it very much.
It is so. We need patience and time to get something.
Please keep in touch.