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Abstract
This is a review of botanical researches on bananas carried out at the Imperial College of Tropical Agricultfire from 1922 to 1946, and of the present programme. Various findings have been published from time to time in scientific papers, where they are available to the few botanists who are interested in the intricacies of reproduction and heredity in Musa. The
object here is not to report any new discoveries, but to give an account of the work as a whole that may be of some interest to a wider circle; and the approach is therefore as untechnical as it can be made, having regard to the highly technical nature of the subject. If apology is needed for repetition of some facts about the earlier work that have already been published more than once, it must be pleaded that the last comprehensive review appeared in 1934, and many readers are likely to find it more convenient to have the historical background redrawn than to be obliged to refer back to earlier publications.