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Gabe15 · 08-13-2016, 02:23 PM

Also the genome groups (AAA, AAB etc...) are descriptive of the state of the genome composition, but does not relate at all to common ancestry or close relation within the groups, overall they are polyphyletic. Subgroups (such as Cavendish, Pome, Plantain etc...) are monoplyletic clusters of closely related mutant types from the same original seedling, so you can start to generalize about cultivars within the subgroups, but not within the genome groups.

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