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Bananas and plantains belong to the Musaceae, known simply as the banana family. There are 2580 species in the genus Musa, depending on the taxonomist. Musa is important not only for fruit production, but the genus has provided man with food, clothin ...
http://www.uga.edu/fruit/banana.html
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- The Banana Link
Banana Link is a small and dynamic notforprofit cooperative, founded in 1996 that campaigns for a fair and sustainable banana trade. We work in close partnership with Latin American banana workers trade unions, small Caribbean farmers and civil socie ...
http://www.bananalink.org.uk/
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- The Plantain
Provides information on harvesting, transport, packaging and storage. Banana plantain belongs to climacteric fruits characterised by temporary increase of respiration Cheftel, 1976 ...
http://www.fao.org/inpho/content/compend/text/ch13-01.htm
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- The Banana
Bananas are fastgrowing herbaceous perennials arising from underground rhizomes. The fleshy stalks or pseudostems formed by upright concentric layers of leaf sheaths constitute the functional trunks. The true stem begins as an underground corm which ...
http://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/banana.html
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- Banana Fruits
The word banana is a general term embracing a number of species or hybrids in the genus Musa of the family Musaceae. Some species such as M. Basjoo Sieb. & Zucc. of Japan and M. ornata Roxb., native from Pakistan to Burma, are grown only as ornamenta ...
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/banana.html
| | - The Banana Plantain
Plantain is a climacteric fruit. During their growth, there is an increase in size of the fruits and accumulation of starch. This increase in size stops when the fruits reach total physiological maturity. ...
http://www.fao.org/inpho/content/compend/text/ch14-01.htm
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- Banana Bioversity
The mission of Bioversity’s banana research group is to help people, especially smallscale banana producers and their communities, to improve their wellbeing through effective use of banana biodiversity. This biodiversity comprises both the diversity ...
http://bananas.bioversityinternational.org/
| | - The Musa As Famine Foods
Lists some of the food use of less familiar members of the Musaceae eaten only in extreme circumstances. ...
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/faminefoods/ff_families/MUSACEAE.html
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Banana Pests and Diseases
