No more bananas in 10 years!?
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on January 16, 2003 at 2:45:02 PM
Okay, this is a bit disturbing. Bananas are awesome. They better fix this problem soon.
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Two fungal diseases, Panama disease and black Sigatoka, are cutting a swath through banana plantations, just as blight once devastated potato crops. But unlike the potato, and other crops where disease-resistant strains can be bred by conventional means, making a fungus-free variety of the banana is extraordinarily difficult.