Although wild bananas are studded with large inedible seeds, modern domesticated bananas do not have functional seeds and are essentially sterile. Instead, they reproduce through suckers or shoots that arise from the rhizome after the main plant has fruited and been cut down. This means that banana plants are clones of one another and are thus especially vulnerable to diseases.
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