[NAFEX] seedless bananas

Melissa Kacalanos mijwiz at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 22 11:04:29 EDT 2009


Jerry,

Actually, those little dots are just aborted ovules, that would not sprout if you planted them. That's because commercial bananas are triploid, thus sterile. Their diploid and tetraploid parents have big obvious seeds.

Melissa


I don't hear anyone complaining about seedless bananas

By the way bananas do have seeds. But you could make the case they are pitless. The seeds are those black specs and aren't apparent as normal seed. 



Jerry


      
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