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Eastern South Asian banana species
Musa balbisiana , also known simply as plantain , is a
wild-type species of
banana . It is one of the ancestors of modern cultivated bananas, along with
Musa acuminata .
Description
It grows lush leaves in clumps with a more upright habit than most cultivated bananas. Flowers grow in
inflorescences coloured red to maroon. The fruit are between blue and green. They are considered inedible because of the seeds they contain.
Taxonomy
It was first scientifically described in 1820 by the Italian botanist
Luigi Aloysius Colla .
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[5]
Distribution
It is native to eastern
South Asia , the eastern regions of the
Indian subcontinent , northern
Southeast Asia , and southern
China . Introduced populations exist in the wild, far outside its native range.
[6]
Uses
It is assumed that wild bananas were cooked and eaten, as farmers would not have developed the cultivated banana otherwise. Seeded Musa balbisiana fruit are called butuhan ('with seeds') in the
Philippines ,
[7] and kluai tani (กล้วยตานี) in
Thailand ,
[8] where its leaves are used for packaging and crafts.
[9] Natural
parthenocarpic clones occur through
polyploidy and produce edible bananas, examples of which are wild
saba bananas .
[10]
Genome
Musa balbisiana contributed the B
genome to the cultivated banana.
[11]
Wang et al. , 2019 provides a
genome ,
evolutionary analysis and
functional genomics analysis.
[11] Wang et al. find evolution increasing
ethylene production in the domesticated form.
[11]
See also
References
^ Allen, R. (2019).
"Musa balbisiana " .
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2019 : e.T111907032A111907034.
doi :
10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T111907032A111907034.en . Retrieved 19 November 2021 .
^
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b
"Musa balbisiana Colla" .
Plants of the World Online . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2024-04-11 .
^ Edmond de Langhe & Pierre de Maret (2004).
"Tracking the banana: its significance in early agriculture" . In Jon G. Hather (ed.). The Prehistory of Food: Appetites for Change .
Routledge . p. 372.
ISBN
978-0-203-20338-5 .
^
"Build checklist for Musa " .
World Checklist of Selected Plant Families . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2013-01-22 .
^ Borborah, Kongkona; Borthakur, S. K.; Tanti, Bhaben (2016-06-23).
"A new variety of Musa balbisiana Colla from Assam, India" . Bangladesh Journal of Plant Taxonomy . 23 (1): 75–78.
doi :
10.3329/bjpt.v23i1.28348 .
ISSN
2224-7297 .
^ Perrier, Xavier; Langhe, Edmond De; Donohue, Mark; Lentfer, Carol; Vrydaghs, Luc; Bakry, Frédéric; Carreel, Françoise; Hippolyte, Isabelle; Horry, Jean-Pierre; Jenny, Christophe; Lebot, Vincent (2011-07-12).
"Multidisciplinary perspectives on banana (Musa spp.) domestication" .
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 108 (28): 11311–11318.
Bibcode :
2011PNAS..10811311P .
doi :
10.1073/pnas.1102001108 .
PMC
3136277 .
PMID
21730145 .
^
"Progenitors of Edible Bananas" . Guide to Growing Bananas. November 1, 2010. Archived from
the original on July 7, 2011. Retrieved January 12, 2011 .
^
Plant use in Southern Thailand (PDF) . Chiang Mai University. Archived from
the original (PDF) on 2014-04-13.
^ Karnjanatawe, Karnjana (19 August 2019).
"Going bananas" . Bangkok Post . Retrieved 19 August 2019 .
^ Michel H. Porcher; Prof. Snow Barlow (July 19, 2002).
"Sorting Musa names" . The University of Melbourne. Retrieved January 11, 2011 .
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Van den houwe, Ines; Chase, Rachel; Sardos, Julie; Ruas, Max; Kempenaers, Els; Guignon, Valentin; Massart, Sebastien; Carpentier, Sebastien; Panis, Bart; Rouard, Mathieu; Roux, Nicolas (2020).
"Safeguarding and using global banana diversity: a holistic approach" .
CABI Agriculture and Bioscience . 1 (1).
doi :
10.1186/s43170-020-00015-6 .
hdl :
10568/110253 .
S2CID
257187109 .
This review cites this research.
Wang, Zhuo; Miao, Hongxia; Liu, Juhua; Xu, Biyu; Yao, Xiaoming; Xu, Chunyan; Zhao, Shancen; Fang, Xiaodong; Jia, Caihong; Wang, Jingyi; Zhang, Jianbin; Li, Jingyang; Xu, Yi; Wang, Jiashui; Ma, Weihong; Wu, Zhangyan; Yu, Lili; Yang, Yulan; Liu, Chun; Guo, Yu; Sun, Silong; Baurens, Franc-Christophe; Martin, Guillaume; Salmon, Frederic; Garsmeur, Olivier; Yahiaoui, Nabila; Hervouet, Catherine; Rouard, Mathieu; Laboureau, Nathalie; Habas, Remy; Ricci, Sebastien; Peng, Ming; Guo, Anping; Xie, Jianghui; Li, Yin; Ding, Zehong; Yan, Yan; Tie, Weiwei; D’Hont, Angélique; Hu, Wei; Jin, Zhiqiang (2019).
"Musa balbisiana genome reveals subgenome evolution and functional divergence" .
Nature Plants . 5 (8): 810–821.
doi :
10.1038/s41477-019-0452-6 .
PMC
6784884 .
PMID
31308504 .
S2CID
196814208 .
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