Hence, the major obstacles in banana breeding are high sterility, polyploidy and long generation times of most edible cultivars of most important banana and plantain varieties (Sagi et al., 1997; Sasson, 1997; Tenkouano and Swennen, 2004). The application of biotechnology for the improvement of this crop would be a useful tool to breeders for the manipulation of germplasm and introductions of traits of interest.