Combining Biological Approaches to Shed Light on the Evolution of Edible Bananas
By X. Perrier, F. Bakry, F. Carreel, Christophe Jenny, J. Horry, V. Lebot, I. Hippolyte. 2009
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Deciphering the diversity of the banana complex needs a joint characterization and analysis of the original wild species and their relatives, primitive diploid forms and triploid derived varieties. Sexuality, the primary source of diversity, is strongly disrupted in the cultivated varieties (sterility, parthenocarpy and vegetative propagation) by human selection of vegetatively maintained punctuated mutations. Many biological tools are available for characterizing this diversity, each one illustrating some peculiar facets, and we show that their joint analysis enables an evolutionary reading of this diversity. We propose various scenarios regarding the structure of wild species, on the domestication of the edible diploids from hybrids between wild forms, on the direct ancestry of triploids from cultivated diploids, and on the ancient migrations dispersing cultivated forms around the world. The comparison with data from archaeology, linguistics and human genetics will enable the validation, refinement and dating of the proposed domestication process.
Subfields: Plant Science
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- A historical overview of the appearance and spread of Musa pests and pathogens on the African continent: highlighting the importance of clean Musa planting materials and quarantine measures (2013, unknown): “acuminata and Musa balbisiana (BB genome) (Perrier et al., 2009).”
- Bananas and People in the Homeland of Genus Musa: Not just pretty fruit (2009, background): “Understandably, a great deal of attention has been given to explicating the genetics and biogeography of the process by which bananas with seedless fruit were domesticated (Kennedy 2008, n.d.; Perrier et al. 2009, Simmonds 1962).”
- Molecular and cytological characterization of the global Musa germplasm collection provides insights into the treasure of banana diversity (2017, background): “Representatives of the ABB triploid subgroup ‘Pisang Awak’ and the Indian AAB ‘Silk’ subgroup were reported to share the malaccensis A-genome (Perrier et al. 2009), but this conclusion is weakly supported by our results.”