Banana conservation a need of the hour Banana Bananas are one of the major food crops widely cultivated in many countries. It belongs to the family Musaceae and genus Musa. Bananas globally rank fourth in the position after rice, wheat, and maize as food for human. They are grown in more than 130 countries worldwide. Bananas are native to tropical southeastern Asia but are widely cultivated in the tropical region of other parts of the world. Banana is a herbaceous flowering plant arising from the underground rhizome. Now the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has warned that wild banana species are rapidly going extinct as Indian forests are destroyed while many farmers varieties are also disappearing from the fields. So it is very urgent to take a global effort to save the banana's gene pool The majority of cultivated bananas arose from the Eumusa group of species. This section is the biggest in the gen