Globally, banana is the maximum distributed fruit crop and is the fourth most important commodity and is grown in more than 130 countries across the world, continuously exhibiting a spectacular growth pattern worldwide in an area of million ha producing 98946 million tones. India is the largest producer of banana in the world. There are diverse germplasms of banana traditionally cultivated in different regions of India having remarkable genetic differences. Traditional procedure to characterize banana plants by morphological descriptors has many limitations. Different communities refer to the local cultivars by different names and lack of clear clone identity in the crop has resulted in unnecessary duplication with regard to cultivation, conservation and research. | Molecular Characterization of some indigenous plantain and cooking type banana germplasm
