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Left to right: plantains, Red, Latundan, and Cavendish bananas.

The following is a list of banana cultivars and the groups into which they are classified. Almost all modern cultivated varieties (cultivars) of edible bananas and plantains are hybrids and polyploids of two wild, seeded banana species,Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana. Cultivated bananas are almost always seedless (parthenocarpic) and hence sterile, so they are propagated vegetatively. They are classified into groups according to a genome-based system introduced by Ernest Cheesman, Norman Simmonds, and Ken Shepherd, which indicates the degree of genetic inheritance from the two wild parents and the number of chromosomes (ploidy). Cultivars derived from Musa acuminataare more likely to be used as dessert bananas, while those derived from Musa balbisiana and hybrids of the two are usually plantains or cooking bananas.^[1][2][3]

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• 1Classification of cultivars
• 2Cultivars
  • 2.1AA Group
  • 2.2AAA Group
  • 2.3AAAA Group
  • 2.4AAAB Group
  • 2.5AAB Group
  • 2.6AABB Group
  • 2.7AB Group
  • 2.8ABB Group
  • 2.9ABBB Group
  • 2.10BB Group
  • 2.11BBB Group
• 3See also
• 4References
• 5Further reading
• 6External links