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This is a radical departure from the bananas most of us eat, which are all clones of the exact same plant. https://www.newsweek.com/worlds-bananas-are-clones-a
by ocdtrekkie 6y ago
This is a radical departure from the bananas most of us eat, which are all clones of the exact same plant.
https://www.newsweek.com/worlds-bananas-are-clones-and-they-are-imminent-danger-publish-monday-5am-1321787 https://www.newsweek.com/worlds-bananas-are-clones-and-they-...
- mark-r 6y agoIt's funny how history repeats but we don't learn. The most popular banana variety used to be the Gros Michel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gros_Michel_banana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gros_Michel_banana but it was almost completely wiped out by a fungus. Now the Cavendish that replaced it is also being wiped out by a fungus.