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“There was some domestication in parts of the South Pacific which had not previously been considered.” Read more at Boston.com.

A new study shows that domesticated bananas have genetic markers tying them to three types of wild bananas that have not yet been found.

The history of the banana is more complicated than you might have ever imagined (if you ever thought about it at all).

People on the island of New Guinea are said to have cultivated bananas 7,000 years ago. However, the history of banana domestication is convoluted, and their ca

A new study shows that the history of bananas is even more complex than previously thought, confirming that the genome of today’s domesticated varieties contains traces of three extra, as yet unknown, ancestors.

The study identified a history of genetic engineering, specifically hybridization and a selection for heterozygotes, as mechanisms for the transition from wild to cultivated bananas.