Edible bananas evolved from the wild species by parthenocarpy and seed suppression. These are diploid, triploid or tetraploid
hybrids, having A and B genomes. Musa acuminata was a progenitor of the A-genome, while the B-genome was derived from Musa balbisiana (Osuji, Okoli, Vuylsteke, & Ortiz, 1997).