Widening the tool set for breeding superior banana cultivars. Can new techniques of pollen handling and pollination help overcome the lack of recombinant seed in banana breeding?
Pollen tube growth (PTG) monitoring was applied to florets of domesticated bananas and plantains.Observations were made in UV microscopy after Aniline Blue Christmas Tree staining specific for callose, a carbohydrate of pollen tubes.It was found that total pollen grain numbers on a stigma and total pollen tubes developing after sufficient time for