ryan

thanks gabe,

that was really clear as to how the edible banana genetic groups are derived.

this system is indeed useful in attaching the group to the cultivar and thus knowing whether it is a dessert or cooking banana, due to either parent's influence. This is as far as a general banana enthusiast would go with such information.

on another note, the tetraploidy aspect seems particularly interesting, eternal seedlings? pictures pictures! what do these look like?

then again, how do we explain hybrids when the bananas we work with are seedless? there's this school of thought whereby some seedles ones do have 1 or 2 seeds oncein a while and those are sown.... what do u think?