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With the familiar Cavendish banana in danger, can science help it survive?

  • Written by Ioannis Stergiopoulos, Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis
imageFacing down a future with no bananas.Chris Richmond, CC BY-NC-ND

The banana is the world’s most popular fruit crop, with over 100 million metric tons produced annually in over 130 tropical and subtropical countries. Edible bananas are the result of a genetic accident in nature that created the seedless fruit we enjoy today. Virtually all the...

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