Bananas, reproduce via vegetative propagation( i.e. vegetative parts of a plant such as a root, stem, etc., are capable of producing new plants). In bananas, asexual reproduction occurs by employing vegetative propagation from the stem.
Plants That Reproduce Asexually
Strawberries reproduce through horizontal stems called runners. Dandelions and blackberries reproduce through seeds that form asexually.
Banana trees mainly reproduce through suckers, also called pups. These pups appear to be separate, smaller trees growing next to the adult tree, but they are an offshoot from the roots of that tree. This means they are the same plant attached at the roots.
Every season, the plant dies after its fruit is harvested, and the small bulbs (called the suckers) growing out of the plant's underground rhizome (called the corn) are then replanted, and new plants grow. Put simply, bananas don't have seeds because they don't need them.
A sucker is a shoot that develops from a lateral bud on the rhizome and emerges from the soil usually near the parent plant. It is a form of asexual, or vegetative, reproduction, that makes the banana plant perennial.
Most sweet bananas grown today are from a single variety - " Cavendish" - produced as a result of asexual reproduction, not from seeds. In order to meet the world demand for this fruit, banana plants are grown in several tropical countries, many of which are islands.
The potato plant undergoes asexual reproduction via vegetative propagation. Vegetative propagation is the reproduction process in which new plant offspring can be formed from vegetative parts of the plant like root, stem and leaves. Potato contains small eyes/tubers that give rise to leaves in them.
Bananas and plantains(cultivar of Musa) are propagated vegetatively rather than sexually because nearly all cultivated varieties are seedless, and fruits develop parthenocarpically (in the absence of seed development).
Identical Bananas Around the Globe
Despite their smooth texture, bananas actually do have small seeds inside, but they are commercially propagated through cuttings which means that all bananas are actually clones of each other.
Yes, you can grow some bananas from seeds. Among the many wild banana cultivars that have seeds, Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana are two of the species worth trying to germinate. They are parents of certain cultivated types.
In coconut trees, or any palm trees, pollen from male flowers transfers to female flowers, which develop a fruit with a seed inside. This is sexual reproduction, and it keeps the species genetically flexible.
Commercial bananas are seedless and propagated exclusively by vegetative means. The banana has a reduced underground stem, called the rhizome, which bears several buds. Each of these buds sprouts and forms its own pseudostem and a new bulbous rhizome. These daughter plants are called suckers.
Plants are living organisms. That means they need to reproduce in order to pass on their genes to future generations. Plants can create offspring through either sexual or asexual reproduction.
Propagation - Commercially the pineapple plant is propagated by vegetative material, an asexual reproduction, without new combinations of genes. However, sexual reproduction is feasible as seeds are produced in the fruits if cross pollination between cultivars occurs, naturally or under controlled conditions.
The sweet orange reproduces asexually (apomixis through nucellar embryony); varieties of sweet orange arise through mutations.
Like all flowering plants, apples reproduce sexually by pollination. In the wild, apple trees are generally pollinated by a large number of other apple seedlings, which leads to immense diversity.
Banana: more than 60 percent identical
Many of the “housekeeping” genes that are necessary for basic cellular function, such as for replicating DNA, controlling the cell cycle, and helping cells divide are shared between many plants (including bananas) and animals.
We do in fact share about 50% of our genes with plants – including bananas.” “Bananas have 44.1% of genetic makeup in common with humans.”
Bananas are both a fruit and not a fruit. While the banana plant is colloquially called a banana tree, it's actually an herb distantly related to ginger, since the plant has a succulent tree stem, instead of a wood one. The yellow thing you peel and eat is, in fact, a fruit because it contains the seeds of the plant.
Strawberries, like many flowering plants, can produce both sexually and asexually. Farmers rely on both traits: sexual reproduction produces fruit, whereas asexual reproduction provides breeders with clones of useful strawberry varieties.
Strawberry plants can be propagated asexually by allowing plantlets on the ends of stolons ("runners") to grow in soil. But the actual strawberries are the result of sexual reproduction, as they grow from flowers.
In some plants, however, fruit develops without fertilization, a phenomenon known as parthenocarpy. Parthenocarpic fruit has advantages over seeded fruit: longer shelf life and greater consumer appeal. SEEDLESS FRUIT such as navel oranges are propagated asexually, usually by grafting.
Many plants, like onions, potatoes and carrots, reproduce asexually. Some, like blackberries, can reproduce in either way—asexually, by sending shoots into the ground to form new bushes, or sexually, through their flowers.
Onions and garlic are examples of vegetables that asexually reproduce through bulbs. The bulb has underground food storage organs with fleshy leaves that store food and can grow and develop into new plants.
Sexually reproduced plants include cereals, legumes, leafy vegetables, and many fruit and nut trees; asexually reproduced plants include root crops, grasses and vegetables, as well as palms, pandanus and trees.