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Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 750

Q750

Genomic compostion of gold finger banana is

A.
ABB
B.
AAAA
C.
AAAB
Answer
D.
AAB

Answer: Option C

Solution

Answer: Option C
Solution:
The genomic composition of the gold finger banana is AAAB.
The Goldfinger banana is a banana cultivar developed in Honduras. The cultivar, developed at the Honduran Foundation for Agricultural Research (FHIA) by a team of scientists led by Phillip Rowe and Franklin Rosales, has been bred to be pest-resistant and crop-yielding.
The FHIA-01 Goldfinger banana is a tetraploid (AAAB) hybrid of the cultivar Musa acuminata × balbisiana (AAB).