World’s banana supply at risk from increasing number of bugs and spread of fungal disease

http://www.dailymail.co.uk ^ | PUBLISHED: 06:30 EST, 17 December 2013 | UPDATED: 09:49 EST, 17 December 2013 | By William Turvill

[texas booster]

And bananas have Potassium-40, so I can irradiate myself during a snack.

[EEGator]

“Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.”

[Daveinyork]

This means that the condom demonstrators will have to use cucumbers.

[PATRIOT1876]

Magda Gonzalez has destroyed any shred of credibility that she may have had by being “certain” that this was caused by the climate change hoax

[Red Badger]

or zucchinis................

[Red Badger]

She’s one banana short of a bunch.................

[Red Badger]

and you can find them in the dark...................

[Red Badger]

[Veggie Todd]

Fungi.

Thanks, Cosmo.

[null and void]

This is all your fault...

[Shanty Shaker]

Scientists are close to bringing back the original banana from the 1950’s by adding resistance to the fungus via genetic manipulation of the plant.

Source: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v488/n7410/full/nature11241.html

[Sergio]

Blame it on cloning.

The vast majority of bananas are not grown from seed. The banana plant reproduces by creating a new plant that grows off of the roots of the original plant. This new plant is separated from its “parent” and planted elsewhere. This process is repeated until you have a very large grove of genetically identical banana plants. Because of the lack of genetic diversity, any fungus, disease, or pest that can successfully attack one banana plant in the grove, can do the same to the remaining banana plants.

[Charles Martel]

Scientists are close to bringing back the original banana from the 1950’s by adding resistance to the fungus via genetic manipulation of the plant.

The lab workers are already lining up for samples...

[doorgunner69]

Glad I grow my own. Candy apple bananas are the best, too.

[ETL]

"World’s banana supply at risk"

We've got plenty of bananas here in the US. Didn't just over half of us vote for Obama?

[familyop]

I’ve seen that sort of announcement from banana interests several times over the past couple of decades. Be very afraid! Buy and hoard bananas right now, or you won’t get any—ever! Your grandkids and great-grandkids won’t know what a banana looks like! It’s the end of the world!

[Red Badger]

If bananas become extinct, Nabisco will go bankrupt.............

[Georgia Girl 2]

Paw Paws my friend. They taste like bananas and can be substituted for any banana recipe. They grow wild in GA.

[Fungi]

Sorry. I repent in dust and ashes, but it is probably too late.

[Uncle Chip]

This news could set off monkey riots at the zoo.