The banana pangenome,
evolution, and exploiting
biodiversity
PAT HESLOP-HARRISON
TWITTER: @PATHH1 AND SLIDESHARE
PHH@MOLCYT.COM
Map DongLi Cui, Qing Liu & HH SCBG
Musa – Banana distribution
warm, humid tropics
Sister
genus
Ensete
• World Banana Production
• Almost all tropical
• India: 30Mt but no export
• “Banana economy” is praise
The Banana
PAT HESLOP-HARRISON
WWW.BIOBANANA.COM
Musa and Musaceae – banana and the banana
taxonomic family
Musaceae
Charles Darwin 1859
The Origin of Species
And notebook
Ensete ventricosum 2nd genus in Musaceae
enset, ensete, false banana
Staple food in Ethiopia
What is a banana?
• Musa – Musaceae – Zingiberales
• Monocotyledon – Giant Herb (grass not tree!)
1.1 Banana – Taxonomic position
Zingiberales Order Bed, National Botanic Garden of Wales
green
plants
land plants
vascular plants
seed plants
flowering plants
diversification of angiosperms
ANA
ε Ginkgo
Taxus
Pinus
Cedrus
Sequoia
Welwitschia
Ephedra
Lycophytes
(ca. 1200 species)
Physcomitrium sp.
Chlorophytes
(ca. 4300 species)
0
100
200
300
400
1500 Mya
500
AGF
Charophytes
(ca. 12,000 species)
Sphagnum sp.
Physcomitrella
Monilophytes
(ca. 13,000 species)
Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event
Vitis (grapevine)
Solanum (tomato, potato)
Arabidopsis
Carica (papaya)
Populus (poplar)
Linum (flax)
Brassica (rapeseed)
Glycine (soybean)
Malus (apple)
Musa (banana)
Oryza (rice)
Triticum (wheat)
Zea (maize)
β α
γ
ρ
σ
τ
Nicotiana (tobacco)
Petunia
ζ
Bryophytes
(20,000 spp)
Gymnosperms
(1000 spp)
Green algae
‘Pteridophytes’
Angiosperms
(400,000 spp)
Eudicots
Monocots
Basal Angiosp.
Karine Alix et al., Ann Bot 2017
Challenges for banana
• Abiotic stress
• Water (drought and waterlogging)
• Temperature
• “Climate change”
• Biotic stress
• Fungal, bacterial & viral
• Insects & nematodes
• Agronomy changes
• Growing in new areas
• Post-harvest
• Quality
• Transportability and Storage
• Nutritional
• Socio-economic changes
• More people to feed on less land
• Urbanization of population
• New uses
• Processing
• Ultra-processing (eg “plant-meats”)
• Waxes
• Fibre
• Starch
• Medical
• Enhancing current properties
• New properties (vaccines, antibiotics)
Additions from farmers
and growers welcome:
What is your most
pressing need?
The F s of Farming
Food, Fibre, Feed, Fuel
Flavours, Flowers, Fun, Pharmaceuticals
Pat Heslop-Harrison phh@molcyt.com
For Malaysia National Banana Congress 2021
Disease resistance –
field trial in Malaysia
China
Biosecurity
"The banana pangenome, evolution, and exploiting
biodiversity"
• i) identification of the challenge;
• ii) identification of useful genetic variants;
• iii) potentially bringing together useful variants in a
single plant;
• iv) testing of characteristics of a new variety; and
• v) propagation and planting.
Training
Tertiary education
– MSc PhD
“Fingerprint” gels showing diversity in
different Musa banana varieties
07/09/2021
20
Phylogenetic analysis of Musa genomes – separating species. Teo, Schwarzacher et al.
This work shows
what can be
achieved to measure
diversity and
relationships using
SSR type of gel-
based markers.
By 2020s, whole-
genome based
survey sequencing
and GBS
(Genotyping by
Sequencing) would
be more appropriate
• Yellow AA; Green ABB; Blue BB; Pink AAB; Orange AAA
Musa and Musaceae – banana and the banana
taxonomic family
Musaceae
Domestication traits
• Work with
disease-related
genes and
resistance in
Musa species
• Azhar et al.
Nuklear
Malaysia /
MINT
• LRRs in Musa compared to reference Rice
• Azhar et al. Nuklear Malaysia / MINT
MT1 MT2 AW KW
Primers : MLRR1-F and MLRR2-R
1000 bp
800 bp
600 bp
MT1 and MT2 – Mutiara tolerance to FOC
AW - Pisang Awak
KW – Klutuk Wulung
BSV Banana Streak Virus
Nuclear Copies of Banana Streak Virus in Banana
DNA Fibre Hybridization
Nuclear Copies of BSV in Banana
Harper, HH et al., Virology 1999 …
D’Hont, PHHet
al. Nature 2012
doi:10.1038/natu
re11241
Musa and Ensete
Musaceae
• dinucleotide
• ATATATATATATA
• AGAGAGAGAG
• trinucleotide
• AATAATAATAAT
• AAAGAAGAAG
• tetranucleotide
• AAAT; AGAT; AAAT; CCCT;
Blue: monomorphic; Red: polymorphic
Manosh Biswas et al The landscape of
microsatellites in the enset (Ensete ventricosum)
genome and web-based marker resource
development. Scientific reports. 2020 Sep
17;10(1):1-1.
The genotypic and genetic diversity of enset (Ensete ventricosum) landraces used in traditional
medicine is similar to the diversity found in starchy landraces
Gizachew Woldesenbet Nuraga, Tileye Feyissa, Kassahun Tesfaye, Manosh Kumar Biswas, Trude
Schwarzacher, James S. Borrell, Paul Wilkin, Sebsebe Demissew, Zerihun Tadele, J.S. (Pat) Heslop-
Harrison bioRxiv 2021 doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.31.274852
NJ tree of diversity
in Enset in Ethiopia
with medicinal uses
Green – non-
medicinal starchy
crop type
But
Landraces with
medicinal uses have
similar diversity
(adjacent same colour are
similar landrace accessions
from different smallholdings)
NM*, ‘non-medicinal’;BF for bone fracture; DP, discharge of
placenta; BP, back pain; SD, skin itching and diarrhea; ET, expulsion of thorn
and drainage of abscess from tissue; LD, liver disease; OD, other diseases
NJ tree of diversity
in Enset in Ethiopia
with medicinal uses
Non-medicinal
starchy crop type
But
Landraces with
medicinal uses have
similar diversity
(adjacent same colour are
similar landrace accessions
from different smallholdings)
NM*, ‘non-medicinal’;BF for bone fracture; DP, discharge of
placenta; BP, back pain; SD, skin itching and diarrhea; ET, expulsion of thorn
and drainage of abscess from tissue; LD, liver disease; OD, other diseases
A chromosome-level reference genome of Ensete glaucum gives insight into diversity, chromosomal and repetitive
sequence evolution and diversity in the Musaceae
Ziwei Wang, Mathieu Rouard, Manosh Biswas, Gaetan Droc, Dongli Cui, Nicolas Roux, Franc-Christophe Baurens,
Xue-Jun Ge, Trude Schwarzacher, Pat (J.S.) Heslop-Harrison and Qing Liu
Biodiversity
Oryza sativa Rice
Musa balbisiana
Musa acuminata
Musa schizocarpa
Ensete glaucum
Phoenix dactlyifera Date
A chromosome-level reference genome of Ensete glaucum gives insight into diversity, chromosomal and
repetitive sequence evolution and diversity in the Musaceae
Ziwei Wang, Mathieu Rouard, Manosh Biswas, Gaetan Droc, Dongli Cui, Nicolas Roux, Franc-Christophe
Baurens, Xue-Jun Ge, Trude Schwarzacher, Pat (J.S.) Heslop-Harrison and Qing Liu
Starch synthesis pathway - number of genes present in Musaceae species
Ensete glaucum Ensete ventricosum Musa acuminata Musa balbisiana Musa schizocarpa Musa itinerans
Gene EGL EVE MAC MBA MSC MIT
AGPase 6 8 7 7 8 8
DBE 3 3 5 5 3 5
SBE 3 9 5 12 5 6
SS 21 10 17 14 14 12
Total 33 30 34 38 30 31
Cellulose Synthase
Single Nucleotide
Polymorphism SNP
Provisional tree for GBSS
Granule Bound Starch Synthase
Chromosome Evolution between banana (x=11
chromosomes) and enset (x=9 chromosomes)
eg01 eg02 eg03 eg04 eg05 eg06 eg07 eg08 eg09
ma01 ma02 ma03 ma04 ma05 ma06 ma07 ma08 ma09 ma10 ma11
45S
45S
A chromosome-level reference genome of Ensete glaucum gives insight into diversity, chromosomal and repetitive
sequence evolution and diversity in the Musaceae
Ziwei Wang, Mathieu Rouard, Manosh Biswas, Gaetan Droc, Dongli Cui, Nicolas Roux, Franc-Christophe Baurens, Xue-
Jun Ge, Trude Schwarzacher, Pat (J.S.) Heslop-Harrison and Qing Liu
Ensete glaucum
Musa acuminata
0Mb
10
20
30
50
40
60
left
right
left
right
0Mb
10
20
30
50
40
45S rDNA
5S rDNA
Musa acuminata
Ensete
glaucum
https://banana-genome-hub.southgreen.fr
/content/ensete-glaucum-v1
60 years of plant breeding progress – banana?
Agronomy
Genetics
New breeding
0
500000000
1E+09
1.5E+09
1961
1965
1969
1973
1977
1981
1985
1989
1993
1997
2001
2005
2009
2013
2017
Production of major crops
Wheat-p Rice-p Maize-p People/10
0
10000
20000
30000
40000
50000
60000
70000
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
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1985
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1989
1990
1991
1992
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1994
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2003
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2006
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2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
Yield of major crops
Wheat-y Rice-y Maize-Y People(rel)
60 years of plant breeding progress – banana?
Agronomy
Genetics
New breeding
0
1000000
2000000
3000000
4000000
5000000
6000000
1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 2030
Banana Yield hg/ha
Super-domestication:
The future of banana crops
• The genepool has the diversity there which can
meet these challenges
• Breeders need to get better and faster
• Banana has extra challenges
• Staple food
• Major income source in many communities
• Sterile plant
• Export has transport/ripening requirements
How to use diversity
• Cross two varieties
• Genome manipulations
• Cross two species and make a new one
• Cell fusion hybrids
• Chromosome manipulation
• Backcross a new species
• Generate recombinants
• Chromosome recombinations
• Gene editing and Transgenic approaches
Yield – quality – sustainability
Inputs: Agronomy, Genetics, Technology
Climate change: extremes; water;
temperature; salinity; CO2
Populations – urbanization, health
Get better at what we do
Partnerships with farmers, traders,
processors, markets (marketing?), users,
breeders, scientists
Communicate and collaborate
49
Outputs
•CROPS
• Fixed
energy
50
Inputs
–Light
–Heat
–Water
–Gasses
–Nutrients
Outputs
•CROPS
• Fixed
energy
51
Inputs
–Light
–Heat
–Water
–Gasses
–Nutrients
– Light
– Heat
– Water
– Gasses
– Nutrients
“The banana pangenome, evolution, and exploiting
biodiversity“ Pat Heslop-Harrison phh@molcyt.com for
Malaysian National Banana Congress 2021
• Banana production faces challenges from biotic (disease) and abiotic (environment) stresses.
• New genetic characteristics are needed for stress resistance and to improve yield, agronomy, post-
harvest quality, nutritional value, and even for new food or industrial uses.
• Improvement requires i) identification of the challenge; ii) identification of useful genetic variants; iii)
potentially bringing together useful variants in a single plant; iv) testing of characteristics of a new
variety; and v) propagation and planting.
• I will discuss our results measuring diversity in germplasm from banana and its sister species
including the starchy Ensete, towards generating a pan-genome representing the entire genetic
diversity within the Musaceae family.
• I will consider how this diversity has evolved and how we might use it as a common gene pool to
improve banana for the benefit of smallholder or commercial farmers, and for the sustainability in
the environment.
The banana pangenome,
evolution, and exploiting
biodiversity
PAT HESLOP-HARRISON
TWITTER: @PATHH1 AND SLIDESHARE
PHH@MOLCYT.COM

Evolution, biodiversity and the banana pangenome

  • 1.
    The banana pangenome, evolution,and exploiting biodiversity PAT HESLOP-HARRISON TWITTER: @PATHH1 AND SLIDESHARE PHH@MOLCYT.COM
  • 3.
    Map DongLi Cui,Qing Liu & HH SCBG Musa – Banana distribution warm, humid tropics Sister genus Ensete
  • 4.
    • World BananaProduction • Almost all tropical • India: 30Mt but no export • “Banana economy” is praise
  • 5.
  • 6.
    Musa and Musaceae– banana and the banana taxonomic family Musaceae Charles Darwin 1859 The Origin of Species And notebook
  • 7.
    Ensete ventricosum 2ndgenus in Musaceae enset, ensete, false banana Staple food in Ethiopia
  • 8.
    What is abanana? • Musa – Musaceae – Zingiberales • Monocotyledon – Giant Herb (grass not tree!) 1.1 Banana – Taxonomic position Zingiberales Order Bed, National Botanic Garden of Wales
  • 9.
    green plants land plants vascular plants seedplants flowering plants diversification of angiosperms ANA ε Ginkgo Taxus Pinus Cedrus Sequoia Welwitschia Ephedra Lycophytes (ca. 1200 species) Physcomitrium sp. Chlorophytes (ca. 4300 species) 0 100 200 300 400 1500 Mya 500 AGF Charophytes (ca. 12,000 species) Sphagnum sp. Physcomitrella Monilophytes (ca. 13,000 species) Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event Vitis (grapevine) Solanum (tomato, potato) Arabidopsis Carica (papaya) Populus (poplar) Linum (flax) Brassica (rapeseed) Glycine (soybean) Malus (apple) Musa (banana) Oryza (rice) Triticum (wheat) Zea (maize) β α γ ρ σ τ Nicotiana (tobacco) Petunia ζ Bryophytes (20,000 spp) Gymnosperms (1000 spp) Green algae ‘Pteridophytes’ Angiosperms (400,000 spp) Eudicots Monocots Basal Angiosp. Karine Alix et al., Ann Bot 2017
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    Challenges for banana •Abiotic stress • Water (drought and waterlogging) • Temperature • “Climate change” • Biotic stress • Fungal, bacterial & viral • Insects & nematodes • Agronomy changes • Growing in new areas • Post-harvest • Quality • Transportability and Storage • Nutritional • Socio-economic changes • More people to feed on less land • Urbanization of population • New uses • Processing • Ultra-processing (eg “plant-meats”) • Waxes • Fibre • Starch • Medical • Enhancing current properties • New properties (vaccines, antibiotics) Additions from farmers and growers welcome: What is your most pressing need? The F s of Farming Food, Fibre, Feed, Fuel Flavours, Flowers, Fun, Pharmaceuticals Pat Heslop-Harrison phh@molcyt.com For Malaysia National Banana Congress 2021
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    Disease resistance – fieldtrial in Malaysia China
  • 15.
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    "The banana pangenome,evolution, and exploiting biodiversity" • i) identification of the challenge; • ii) identification of useful genetic variants; • iii) potentially bringing together useful variants in a single plant; • iv) testing of characteristics of a new variety; and • v) propagation and planting.
  • 17.
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    “Fingerprint” gels showingdiversity in different Musa banana varieties
  • 20.
    07/09/2021 20 Phylogenetic analysis ofMusa genomes – separating species. Teo, Schwarzacher et al.
  • 21.
    This work shows whatcan be achieved to measure diversity and relationships using SSR type of gel- based markers. By 2020s, whole- genome based survey sequencing and GBS (Genotyping by Sequencing) would be more appropriate • Yellow AA; Green ABB; Blue BB; Pink AAB; Orange AAA
  • 22.
    Musa and Musaceae– banana and the banana taxonomic family Musaceae
  • 23.
  • 24.
    • Work with disease-related genesand resistance in Musa species • Azhar et al. Nuklear Malaysia / MINT
  • 25.
    • LRRs inMusa compared to reference Rice • Azhar et al. Nuklear Malaysia / MINT
  • 27.
    MT1 MT2 AWKW Primers : MLRR1-F and MLRR2-R 1000 bp 800 bp 600 bp MT1 and MT2 – Mutiara tolerance to FOC AW - Pisang Awak KW – Klutuk Wulung
  • 28.
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    Nuclear Copies ofBanana Streak Virus in Banana
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    Nuclear Copies ofBSV in Banana Harper, HH et al., Virology 1999 …
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    D’Hont, PHHet al. Nature2012 doi:10.1038/natu re11241
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    • dinucleotide • ATATATATATATA •AGAGAGAGAG • trinucleotide • AATAATAATAAT • AAAGAAGAAG • tetranucleotide • AAAT; AGAT; AAAT; CCCT; Blue: monomorphic; Red: polymorphic Manosh Biswas et al The landscape of microsatellites in the enset (Ensete ventricosum) genome and web-based marker resource development. Scientific reports. 2020 Sep 17;10(1):1-1.
  • 36.
    The genotypic andgenetic diversity of enset (Ensete ventricosum) landraces used in traditional medicine is similar to the diversity found in starchy landraces Gizachew Woldesenbet Nuraga, Tileye Feyissa, Kassahun Tesfaye, Manosh Kumar Biswas, Trude Schwarzacher, James S. Borrell, Paul Wilkin, Sebsebe Demissew, Zerihun Tadele, J.S. (Pat) Heslop- Harrison bioRxiv 2021 doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.31.274852
  • 37.
    NJ tree ofdiversity in Enset in Ethiopia with medicinal uses Green – non- medicinal starchy crop type But Landraces with medicinal uses have similar diversity (adjacent same colour are similar landrace accessions from different smallholdings) NM*, ‘non-medicinal’;BF for bone fracture; DP, discharge of placenta; BP, back pain; SD, skin itching and diarrhea; ET, expulsion of thorn and drainage of abscess from tissue; LD, liver disease; OD, other diseases
  • 38.
    NJ tree ofdiversity in Enset in Ethiopia with medicinal uses Non-medicinal starchy crop type But Landraces with medicinal uses have similar diversity (adjacent same colour are similar landrace accessions from different smallholdings) NM*, ‘non-medicinal’;BF for bone fracture; DP, discharge of placenta; BP, back pain; SD, skin itching and diarrhea; ET, expulsion of thorn and drainage of abscess from tissue; LD, liver disease; OD, other diseases
  • 39.
    A chromosome-level referencegenome of Ensete glaucum gives insight into diversity, chromosomal and repetitive sequence evolution and diversity in the Musaceae Ziwei Wang, Mathieu Rouard, Manosh Biswas, Gaetan Droc, Dongli Cui, Nicolas Roux, Franc-Christophe Baurens, Xue-Jun Ge, Trude Schwarzacher, Pat (J.S.) Heslop-Harrison and Qing Liu
  • 40.
    Biodiversity Oryza sativa Rice Musabalbisiana Musa acuminata Musa schizocarpa Ensete glaucum Phoenix dactlyifera Date A chromosome-level reference genome of Ensete glaucum gives insight into diversity, chromosomal and repetitive sequence evolution and diversity in the Musaceae Ziwei Wang, Mathieu Rouard, Manosh Biswas, Gaetan Droc, Dongli Cui, Nicolas Roux, Franc-Christophe Baurens, Xue-Jun Ge, Trude Schwarzacher, Pat (J.S.) Heslop-Harrison and Qing Liu
  • 41.
    Starch synthesis pathway- number of genes present in Musaceae species Ensete glaucum Ensete ventricosum Musa acuminata Musa balbisiana Musa schizocarpa Musa itinerans Gene EGL EVE MAC MBA MSC MIT AGPase 6 8 7 7 8 8 DBE 3 3 5 5 3 5 SBE 3 9 5 12 5 6 SS 21 10 17 14 14 12 Total 33 30 34 38 30 31 Cellulose Synthase Single Nucleotide Polymorphism SNP Provisional tree for GBSS Granule Bound Starch Synthase
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    Chromosome Evolution betweenbanana (x=11 chromosomes) and enset (x=9 chromosomes) eg01 eg02 eg03 eg04 eg05 eg06 eg07 eg08 eg09 ma01 ma02 ma03 ma04 ma05 ma06 ma07 ma08 ma09 ma10 ma11 45S 45S A chromosome-level reference genome of Ensete glaucum gives insight into diversity, chromosomal and repetitive sequence evolution and diversity in the Musaceae Ziwei Wang, Mathieu Rouard, Manosh Biswas, Gaetan Droc, Dongli Cui, Nicolas Roux, Franc-Christophe Baurens, Xue- Jun Ge, Trude Schwarzacher, Pat (J.S.) Heslop-Harrison and Qing Liu
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    60 years ofplant breeding progress – banana? Agronomy Genetics New breeding 0 500000000 1E+09 1.5E+09 1961 1965 1969 1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 2009 2013 2017 Production of major crops Wheat-p Rice-p Maize-p People/10 0 10000 20000 30000 40000 50000 60000 70000 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Yield of major crops Wheat-y Rice-y Maize-Y People(rel)
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    60 years ofplant breeding progress – banana? Agronomy Genetics New breeding 0 1000000 2000000 3000000 4000000 5000000 6000000 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 2030 Banana Yield hg/ha
  • 47.
    Super-domestication: The future ofbanana crops • The genepool has the diversity there which can meet these challenges • Breeders need to get better and faster • Banana has extra challenges • Staple food • Major income source in many communities • Sterile plant • Export has transport/ripening requirements
  • 48.
    How to usediversity • Cross two varieties • Genome manipulations • Cross two species and make a new one • Cell fusion hybrids • Chromosome manipulation • Backcross a new species • Generate recombinants • Chromosome recombinations • Gene editing and Transgenic approaches
  • 49.
    Yield – quality– sustainability Inputs: Agronomy, Genetics, Technology Climate change: extremes; water; temperature; salinity; CO2 Populations – urbanization, health Get better at what we do Partnerships with farmers, traders, processors, markets (marketing?), users, breeders, scientists Communicate and collaborate 49
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    “The banana pangenome,evolution, and exploiting biodiversity“ Pat Heslop-Harrison phh@molcyt.com for Malaysian National Banana Congress 2021 • Banana production faces challenges from biotic (disease) and abiotic (environment) stresses. • New genetic characteristics are needed for stress resistance and to improve yield, agronomy, post- harvest quality, nutritional value, and even for new food or industrial uses. • Improvement requires i) identification of the challenge; ii) identification of useful genetic variants; iii) potentially bringing together useful variants in a single plant; iv) testing of characteristics of a new variety; and v) propagation and planting. • I will discuss our results measuring diversity in germplasm from banana and its sister species including the starchy Ensete, towards generating a pan-genome representing the entire genetic diversity within the Musaceae family. • I will consider how this diversity has evolved and how we might use it as a common gene pool to improve banana for the benefit of smallholder or commercial farmers, and for the sustainability in the environment.
  • 54.
    The banana pangenome, evolution,and exploiting biodiversity PAT HESLOP-HARRISON TWITTER: @PATHH1 AND SLIDESHARE PHH@MOLCYT.COM