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To: EdnaMode
Bananas are a major source of calories in parts of Africa, and a major fruit export from Central America and the Philippines.

Genetically, all bananas are genetically similar...to grow trees you plant shoots, because they don't have seeds.

They are worried about pests destroying all bananas. Finding strains with resistance is a big deal.

And they are working on GM plants too.

29 posted on 07/05/2018 11:40:42 PM PDT by LadyDoc (Liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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To: LadyDoc
Genetically, all bananas are genetically similar...

Humans share 50% DNA with bananas

Eat a banana of the variety typically sold in American markets, then a plantain, then one of the short, fat, thin-skinned deliciously sweet kinds seldom sold here. Then tell me they are all the same.

Kinda like saying that iguana, rattlesnake and capybaras "all taste like chicken".

31 posted on 07/06/2018 1:50:15 AM PDT by BwanaNdege (uires sonm)
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