Bananas might be f*cked

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The biggest modern cultivar is flabby and sick anyway, due to massive production demands over the last century. Even if this fungus doesn't kill them, they gene pool is so weak it won't last until the next century, if not earlier. Bananas as we know them/grew up with them will have to be replaced by some new cultivar that will be different from what people are currently used to.

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The biggest modern cultivar is flabby and sick anyway, due to massive production demands over the last century. Even if this fungus doesn't kill them, they gene pool is so weak it won't last until the next century, if not earlier. Bananas as we know them/grew up with them will have to be replaced by some new cultivar that will be different from what people are currently used to.

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The biggest modern cultivar is flabby and sick anyway, due to massive production demands over the last century. Even if this fungus doesn't kill them, they gene pool is so weak it won't last until the next century, if not earlier. Bananas as we know them/grew up with them will have to be replaced by some new cultivar that will be different from what people are currently used to.

Yep.

Destroy genetic diversity with irresponsible farming so we run out of foodstuffs to eat, brehs.
 

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For his part, Dale is trying to engineer Gros Michel bananas for resistance to the original Foc strain. The Cavendish is bland by comparison and it bruises more easily. Dale would like to see Gros Michel on supermarket shelves again. “It’s such a superior banana to Cavendish. To bring it back would be wonderful.”

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:scusthov: nah homie im good. I like my bananas just the way they are.
 
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