Editing Cooking banana (section)

==Taxonomy==
{{Main|Banana#Taxonomy}}{{See also|List of banana cultivars}}
[[Carl Linnaeus]] originally classified bananas into two species based only on their uses as food:  ''Musa paradisiaca'' for plantains and ''Musa sapientum'' for dessert bananas. Both are now known to be [[Hybrid (biology)|hybrids]] between the species ''[[Musa acuminata]]'' (A genome) and ''[[Musa balbisiana]]'' (B genome). The earlier published name, ''Musa'' × ''paradisiaca'', is now used as the scientific name for all such hybrids. Most modern plantains are sterile [[triploid]]s belonging to the [[List of banana cultivars#AAB Group|AAB Group]], sometimes known as the "Plantain group". Other economically important cooking banana groups include the [[East African Highland bananas]] (Mutika/Lujugira subgroup) of the [[List of banana cultivars#AAA Group|AAA Group]] and the Pacific plantains (including the Popoulo, Maoli, and Iholena subgroups), also of the AAB Group.<ref name="ploetz">{{cite journal|author1=Randy C. Ploetz |author2=Angela Kay Kepler |author3=Jeff Daniells |author4=Scot C. Nelson |year=2007|title=Banana and plantain – an overview with emphasis on the Pacific island cultivars|journal=Species Profiles for Pacific Island Agroforestry|url=http://www.agroforestry.net/tti/Banana-plantain-overview.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.agroforestry.net/tti/Banana-plantain-overview.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|access-date=5 June 2011}}</ref>