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[[Mutation breeding]] can be used in this crop. [[Aneuploidy]] is a source of significant variation in [[allotriploid]] varieties. For one example, it can be a source of [[Panama_disease#Tropical_Race_4/TR4|TR4 resistance]]. [[Lab protocol]]s have been devised to screen for such aberrations and for possible resulting disease resistances.<ref name="Efficient-Screening-Mutants">{{ Cite book |date=2022 |publication-place=Berlin |first2=Ivan |first1=Joanna |last2=Ingelbrecht |last1=Jankowicz-Cieslak |editor-first1=Joanna |editor-first2=Ivan L. |editor-last1=Jankowicz-Cieslak |editor-last2=Ingelbrecht |title=Efficient Screening Techniques to Identify Mutants with TR4 Resistance in Banana : Protocols |isbn=978-3-662-64914-5 |publisher=Plant Breeding and Genetics Laboratory, Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, [[International Atomic Energy Agency]], United Nations [[Food and Agriculture Organization]] |doi=10.1007/978-3-662-64915-2 |s2cid=249207968 |oclc=1323245754 |page=142}}</ref> [[Crop wild relative|Wild ''Musa'' spp.]] provide useful resistance genetics, and are vital to breeding for TR4 resistance, as shown in [[introgressed]] resistance from wild relatives.<ref name="Current-Update">{{cite journal |issue=1 |publisher=[[Elsevier]] |year=2023 |volume=9 |pages=1–28 |display-authors=3 |last1=Ismaila |first1=Abubakar Abubakar |last2=Ahmad |first2=Khairulmazmi |last3=Siddique |first3=Yasmeen |last4=Wahab |first4=Muhammad Aswad Abdul |last5=Kutawa |first5=Abdulaziz Bashir |last6=Abdullahi |first6=Adamu |last7=Zobir |first7=Syazwan Afif Mohd |last8=Abdu |first8=Arifin |last9=Abdullah |first9=Siti Nor Akmar |id=Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences via KeAi Communications Co. Ltd. – Chinese Society for Horticultural Science and Institute of Vegetables and Flowers |journal=Horticultural Plant Journal |doi=10.1016/j.hpj.2022.02.004 |title=''Fusarium'' wilt of banana: Current update and sustainable disease control using classical and essential oils approaches |s2cid=247265619 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2023HorPJ...9....1I }}</ref>
 
The [[Honduran Foundation for Agricultural Research]] attempted to exploit the rare cases of seed production to create disease-resistant varieties by conventional breeding; 30,000 commercial banana plants were hand-pollinated with pollen from wild fertile Asian fruit, producing 400 tonnes, which contained about fifteen seeds, of which four or five germinated. Further breeding with wild bananas yielded a new seedless variety resistant to both black Sigatoka and Panama disease.<ref>{{Cite journal |first=Fred |last=Pearce |title=Going bananas |journal=[[New Scientist]] |date=18 January 2003 |volume=177 |issue=2378 |page=27 |url=http://courseresources.mit.usf.edu/sgs/ph6934/webpages/CC/module_5/read/going_bananas_pearce.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200217021404/http://courseresources.mit.usf.edu/sgs/ph6934/webpages/CC/module_5/read/going_bananas_pearce.pdf |archive-date=2020-02-17 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
== Production and export ==