Scientists have sequenced the complete genome of the
banana, an important crop in developing countries that provides a fruit
widely enjoyed the world over and is a staple food in some of the
poorest parts of the globe.
The draft sequence
provided “a crucial stepping-stone for genetic improvement of banana,”
observed Angélique D’Hont, a French agricultural research scientist, and
colleagues from a number of other countries in a paper that is being
published this week in the scientific journal Nature.
The international team has sequenced the genome of DH-Pahang (Musa acuminata),
a banana popular in south-east Asia and which is able to resist the
devastating Panama disease fungus that has been spreading in Asia.
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