Banana cultivation is a long tradition for numerous communities in East Africa, growing particularly the robust diploid ‘Mchare’ variety in the Kilimanjaro and the triploid ‘Mutika’ in the Great Lakes region. Since the...
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Alex Assiry
Plant food and sex (lots of sex!)
Sex on the Kitchen Table: The Romance of Plants and your Food by Norman C Ellstrand 2018. University of Chicago Press. What comes to mind at the mention of sex on the kitchen table? * Perhaps many different things –...
Nigel Chaffey
Codon usage in non-grass monocots
Codon usage bias (also known as codon bias) is the selective use of nucleotide triplets (codons) to encode specific amino acid sequences in the protein coding genes of a species. Every amino acid in a sequence can be...
botanyone
DArT whole genome profiling and evolution of edible banana
Edible banana varieties underwent a series of bottlenecks during their evolution and domestication, resulting in a number of original genotypes that diversified clonally. Sardos et al. have genotyped more than 500...
Plant Records: The Plant that Fooled Millions
Name: Baniwi (Banana Kiwi) plant Scientific name: N/A Known for: Fooling millions and millions of people Record broken: Going viral on the internet At AoBBlog, we like graphs and data. Therefore, I decided to approach...
Anne Osterrieder
Prize-winning banana research
Kiyoshi Mabuchi et al. won an award at the 24th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony in 2014, for their work investigating ‘why bananas are slippery’.
annbot
Live cell imaging reveals extensive intracellular cytoplasmic colonization of banana by normally non-cultivable endophytic bacteria
It is generally believed that endophytic microorganisms are intercellular inhabitants present in either cultivable or non-cultivable form primarily as root colonizers. In a new study in AoB PLANTS, Thomas and Sekhar...
AoBPLANTS
Bananas and their future on BBC Radio 4 The Food Programme @BBCFoodProg
Bananas are our favourite fruit: you can hear lots about them on BBC Radio 4 The Food Programme, produced by award-winning BBC producer Emma Weatherill and presented by Sheila Dillon, a University of Leicester graduate...
Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison
What bacteria are in your banana?
Bacteria in innumerable numbers share a deep and integral association with bananas, but show apparently mutualistic benefits with no obvious adverse effect.
AJ Cann
Interspecific chromosome exchanges in polyploid Musa
Edible bananas originated mainly from two wild species, Musa acuminata and M. balbisiana, and recombinations between chromosomes occur in polyploid varieties. Jeridi et al. compare homoeologous pairing in a diploid...
Bananas on the cover – a videoblog
We used a bunch of bananas, one of the species I work with, as the main background image on the cover of Annals of Botany two years ago. I am discussing the cover images in Annals of Botany in three video blogs...
Chromosome pairing in Musa interspecific cultivars
Most cooking and several desert bananas are interspecific triploid hybrids between Musa acuminata (A genome) and M. balbisiana (B genome). To investigate the possibility of chromosome exchanges between these two...
Free—open access paper: A platform for efficient genotyping in Musa using microsatellite markers
Establishment of a standardized platform for genotyping banana (Musa spp.) using a set of previously published SSR markers is described in this free—open access paper. The platform will serve a broad Musa research and...
Lulu Stader