National Research Centre for Banana (NRCB), Trichy-620 017 (Tamil Nadu).
* FAO/IAEA, Agricultureand Biotechnology Laboratory Agency's Laboratories, A-2444, Seibersdor. Austria.
Exploration in North-eastern states of India has revealed the occurrence of a natural tetraploid of banana in India. Ploidy status was confirmed using flow cytometry while using morpho-taxonomic characterization, Bhat Manohar has been tentatively assigned the genomic status as ABBB. Being male and female fertile, this tetraploid has a good potential for use in breeding programmes.
Banana, Breeding, Characterization, Flow Cytometry, Genomic Status, Musa, Tetraploid
