Fruits & Vegetables Week: Musa balbisiana the Saba green plantain

Gurcharan Singh

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Jan 5, 2011, 1:07:24 PM1/5/11

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Musa balbisiana the Saba green cooking plantain, sold here in California

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Dr. Gurcharan Singh
Retired Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.
Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089
http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/

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Balkar Arya

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Jan 22, 2011, 10:35:48 AM1/22/11

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Gurcharan Ji

is this different from Musa paradisica (banana) in taste

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Dr Balkar Singh
Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology
Arya P G College, Panipat
Haryana-132103
09416262964

Gurcharan Singh

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Jan 22, 2011, 10:58:06 PM1/22/11

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Yes Balkar. The wild species has lot of seeds and inedible. Several cultivars including Saba Green are cooking bananas, largely cooked as vegetable and not used as table fruits unlike M. paradisiaca, the table banana.

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Dr. Gurcharan Singh
Retired Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.
Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089
http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/

Balkar Arya

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Jan 23, 2011, 3:12:02 AM1/23/11

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Dear Sir i missed the opportunity to capture 4-5 spp. of Bananas from Tirupati then. I was in impression that all types of bananas are same sp, so did not tried to go to nearby fields for complete capture. Next time i will certainly try.

Thanks for information

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