Question

Your sister has been a banana tree in the backyard of a house. She could see the fruit but not seeds. She wants to know if a new plant of banana will be produced without seed. Name the process by which it can happen?
A) Polyembryony
B) Cross pollination
C) Tissue culture
D) Wind

Answer 1

Banana, is a fruit of the genus Musa belongs to the family Musaceae. It is a very important fruit crop in the world. It is useful worldwide for its flavor and nutritional value. A ripe banana fruit has 22 percent of carbohydrate and is rich in dietary fibre, potassium, manganese, as well as vitamins B6 and C.

Complete answer:

plants grow naturally on deep and drained soils in humid climates, and they are grown triumphant under irrigation in such semiarid regions as southern Jamaica.
The first crop ripens within 10 to 15 months, and thereafter fruit production increases or decreases continuously.
Repeated pruning is essential to remove surplus growth and stop crowding in a banana plantation.
A new banana plant produced by using lab technique tissue culture. It is defined as the growth of tissues or cells separate from the organisms.
The growth is carried in the liquid, semi-solid and solid growth medium like agar.
A medium should have proper proportions of the essential nutrients for the cells to grow.

Hence the correct answer is option ‘C’ i.e, Tissue culture.

Note: Banana is parthenocarpic that fruits do not fertilize or seedless fruits. Growth initiate from bulb or rhizomes.Some very cultivated types of bananas are either interspecific hybrids of Musa acuminata and M. balbisiana or hybrids of the subspecies of M. acuminate.