PAPUA NEW GUINEA: On the hunt for wild bananas
2020-11-09
Source: International Center for Tropical Agriculture, phys.org The banana has its earliest origins in Papua New Guinea, where it was domesticated by indigenous communities at least 7,000 years ago. This ancestor, Musa acuminata, subspecies Banksii, looks very different from the ubiquitous Cavendish banana: peeling back its skin reveals hundreds ofContinue Reading