Can This Fruit Be Saved?
“That sameness is the banana’s paradox. After 15,000 years of human cultivation, the banana is too perfect, lacking the genetic diversity that is key to species health. What can ail one banana can ail all. A fungus or bacterial disease that infects one plantation could march around the globe and destroy millions of bunches, leaving supermarket shelves empty. A wild scenario? Not when you consider that there’s already been one banana apocalypse.” “Can This Fruit Be Saved?”, Popular Science
