The breed of bananas we eat today are not the kind we ate when we were kids.
Banana PING!...............
Banana producer screwed up one time and now they’re screwing up again. Didn’t they learn anything?
They “split”
Uh, the plantain.
“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.
Regrettably, Canaan Banana is no longer alive to offer his insights.
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!
Can they breed it to taste like a hamburger? Then maybe I’ll eat one.
Bananas have always gone straight to my gag reflex, from babyhood til now.
Good for you? Great source of potassium, but yummy avocados have more.
So, bread, butter, baklava, bananas...