JoeReal

My theory is that several hundred thousand years of vegetative mode reproduction has allowed bananas to evolve quicker too, by easily mutating under various environmental stresses, not only during reproductive recombination of genes. Tissue culture is a great physical-chemical stresser, so the effects are easily observed. Remember the discussions about the wacko unregulated experimentations done in Thailand to produce various freakish variegated bananas?

Plus the same TC procedures cannot be used for all cultivars of bananas, we know that in Ae ae as the best example. So we cannot generalize that TC will produce true clones.

And besides, mislabeling by low paid employees at anywhere in the several TC steps up to shipping is still by far the biggest culprit of why the bananas that I get are not even closely related to the one I ordered, and that's true for about a third of the time.