Musa spp., comprising banana and plantain are among the world's leading fruit crops and in terms of economical value, it is the number five agricultural crop in world trade. The edible fruit cultivars are a man-made complex based on two wild diploid species originating from South-East Asia: Musa acuminata Colla(AA), which is highly polymorphous, ith spindly plants that grow in clumps, and Musa balbisiana Colla(BB), a homogeneous hardy plant with a massive pseudo-trunk. There are diploid triploid or tetraploid genome groups. The main genome groups are AA,AB,AAA,AAB and ABB.