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The Urgent Quest To Find Banana’s “Mystery Ancestors”
Scitech Daily ^
| NOVEMBER 16, 2022
| By FRONTIERS
Posted on 11/16/2022 11:27:55 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
The breed of bananas we eat today are not the kind we ate when we were kids.
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posted on
11/16/2022 11:29:48 AM PST
by
BipolarBob
(I was born into this world with nothing . . and I still have most of it .)
To: SunkenCiv
Banana PING!...............
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posted on
11/16/2022 11:29:56 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: BipolarBob
There were Red bananas for sale when I was a kid in grocery stores. Now it’s only in specialty places like Whole Foods.................
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posted on
11/16/2022 11:33:02 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
11/16/2022 11:33:37 AM PST
by
Tell It Right
(1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
To: Red Badger
Banana producer screwed up one time and now they’re screwing up again. Didn’t they learn anything?
To: Red Badger
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posted on
11/16/2022 11:33:54 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: BipolarBob
Back in the 1950s, the most popular banana cultivar, called the Gros Michel, was wiped out by the fungus Fusarium oxysporum, f. sp.cubense . Apparently, this banana was much tastier but when it was wiped out, growers were forced to use the now-standard (and blander) Cavendish variety. Researchers are trying to breed a new resistant Gros Michel to replace the Cavendish if it does get wiped out.
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posted on
11/16/2022 11:37:15 AM PST
by
Fungi
To: Red Badger
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posted on
11/16/2022 11:41:33 AM PST
by
ConservativeMind
(Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: Red Badger
“Breeders need to understand the genetic make-up of today’s domesticated diploid bananas for their crosses between cultivars, and this study is a major first step toward the characterization in great detail of many of these cultivars.”
I don’t think this is true at all. Empiricism trumps theory and is more efficient and effective.
I’m for sequencing all genomes, but this reasoning is hand waving.
Rudolph Boysen came up with the best tasting berry, and Walter Knott cultivated it, without knowing any genomic data.
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posted on
11/16/2022 11:43:18 AM PST
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: BenLurkin; Red Badger
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posted on
11/16/2022 11:47:01 AM PST
by
Larry Lucido
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To: Fungi
I prefer Bananco, but Gorilla's Choice is also a good brand.
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posted on
11/16/2022 11:49:01 AM PST
by
Larry Lucido
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To: Tell It Right
#5:
"Bananna PuddING!" Sorry, but you misspelled ‘Nanner’. Hope this helps!
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posted on
11/16/2022 11:52:24 AM PST
by
Governor Dinwiddie
(LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
To: ifinnegan
#10:
"… cultivated it, without knowing any genomic data." I tend to agree with you. But genetics has it's place. It's like that oddball specialty wrench at the bottom of your toolbox which you only use every couple of years.
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posted on
11/16/2022 11:56:03 AM PST
by
Governor Dinwiddie
(LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
To: Fungi; BipolarBob
The Cavendish banana cultivar that we now have is itself threatened with destruction:
https://tinyurl.com/4kbx2dv2
“Unfortunately, the disease that causes fusarium wilt has mutated and now the Cavendish crop is no longer immune. It too is being decimated by fungal disease.
‘This fungus is a complete nightmare,’ said Dr Aurelio Ciancio, from the Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection at the National Research Council of Italy in Bari.
‘Producers are worried because it’s spreading quickly around the world,’ he said.
Ciancio is the coordinator of the MUSA research project. ‘Traditional control measures are limited and this fungus is clearly capable of killing plants at speed,’ he said.
Funded by the EU and working with partners from Europe, Africa and Latin America, MUSA spent four years investigating the use of bio-controls, or natural agents in plant defence.
Banana bugbear
The banana’s bugbear is dubbed Tropical Race 4 (TR4) also known as Panama 4. First identified in Taiwan in 1990, the mould causes fusarium wilt in the Cavendish cultivar. Entering through the roots, it chokes off the plant’s energy supply, killing it from within.
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posted on
11/16/2022 11:58:08 AM PST
by
Pelham
(World War III will be fought with nuclear weapons. World War IV will be fought with rocks & sticks.)
To: Governor Dinwiddie
Sorry, but you misspelled ‘Nanner’. Hope this helps! Not to me, I understood perfectly what he meant.......
To: Red Badger
Regrettably, Canaan Banana is no longer alive to offer his insights.
To: Pelham
I’m sure there’s an mRNA shot they can give the plants that will be both safe and effective against the fungus
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posted on
11/16/2022 12:14:42 PM PST
by
z3n
(Kakistocracy)
To: Red Badger
If you need more specialists on bananas, call ex-Tallahassee Fl. Mayor Gillum, Peter “The Banana Secretary”, and former Rep. Barney’s Frank for advise. /sarcasm, I think!
To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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posted on
11/16/2022 12:22:18 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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