Banana (Musa spp.) is a giant perennial herb with a pantropical distribution (Heslop-Harrison & Schwarzacher, 2007). Bananas originated in South-east Asia following interspecific and intraspecific hybridization between two wild diploid species, Musa acuminata (AA) and M. balbisiana (BB). These two species contributed the A and B genomes, respectively, resulting in more than 1000 banana varieties comprising diploids (AA, AB, BB), triploids (AAA, AAB, ABB) and tetraploids (ABBB) (Heslop-Harrison & Schwarzacher, 2007). Most of the cultivated bananas are triploids, which include sweet dessert bananas such as Cavendish (AAA), Gros Michel (AAA), Apple (Silk AAB), Pome (AAB) and Pisang Awak (ABB), and cooking bananas such as Matooke bananas (Musa spp. genomic group AAA), plantains (AAB) and Bluggoe (ABB) (Heslop-Harrison & Schwarzacher, 2007).