Bananas and People in the Homeland of Genus Musa: Not just pretty fruit

dc.contributor.author Kennedy, Jean
dc.date.accessioned 2009-09-17T22:43:41Z
dc.date.available 2009-09-17T22:43:41Z
dc.date.issued 2009
dc.description research
dc.description.abstract Bananas, perhaps the most recognizable of fruits, are nowhere more genetically diverse than in the southwest Pacific, where parthenocarpic fruit originated according to recent biomolecular evidence. In the wider Indo-Malesian area, homeland of the genus Musa L., understanding the domestication of bananas must include consideration of a much greater range of Musa species than just the few implicated in the parentage of the modern cultivars with seedless fruit. Despite ethnobotanical evidence that the genus has been valued for many more products than the edible fruit, the role of other products in the process of domestication is seldom considered. As well as documenting the development and spread of seedless cultivars, we need to develop models of the fundamental Indo-Malesian practices through which the greater range of species and products, seeds and all, were managed in diverse socio-cultural and environmental circumstances.
dc.identifier.citation Kennedy J. 2009. Bananas and people in the homeland of genus Musa: not just pretty fruit. Ethnobotany Research and Applications 7:179-197.
dc.identifier.issn 1547-3465
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10125/12514
dc.language.iso en-US
dc.publisher University of Hawaii at Manoa
dc.subject banana domestication
dc.subject Musa L.
dc.title Bananas and People in the Homeland of Genus Musa: Not just pretty fruit
dc.type Article
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