Cytogenetical Investigations in Musaceae II. Meiotic studies in eight male sterile triploid banana varieties of India

Abstract

India is one of the probable places of origin of bananas (Simmonds 1966), lot of variability exists in the cultivated forms and as many as 317 varieties have been identified, of which 28 are diploids, 190 are triploids and four are tetraploids (Gulick and Sloten 1984). The present investigations, second in the series, were undertaken to study the meiotic behaviour of eight triploid male sterile Indian banana varieties. © 1987, Japan Mendel Society, International Society of Cytology. All rights reserved.