End of the cavendish bananas?

[Angua]

[QUOTE]Scientists have warned that the world’s banana crop, worth £26 billion and a crucial part of the diet of more than 400 million people, is facing “disaster” from virulent diseases immune to pesticides or other forms of control.
Alarm at the most potent threat – a fungus known as Panama disease tropical race 4 (TR4) – has risen dramatically after it was announced in recent weeks that it has jumped from South-east Asia, where it has already devastated export crops, to Mozambique and Jordan.

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Source [URL="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/bananageddon-millions-face-hunger-as-deadly-fungus-decimates-global-banana-crop-9239464.html"]the independent[/URL]

Have to say my only regret is not eating more bananas.

[DrLuke]

But what else will I deepthroat from now on?

[Weirdness]

This really ain't good. It's pretty much the only choice we've got when it comes to bananas.

[Jamsponge]

For fuck's sake, now banana-flavoured sweets are going to be even [I]more[/I] inaccurate.

[sloppy_joes]

Same thing happened with Gros Michel Bananas in the 50s.

[Vasili]

[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;44461182]Same thing happened with Gros Michel Bananas in the 50s.[/QUOTE]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfX8taUsoEA[/media]

Heres our banana expert to tell us more.

[Chonch]

Creepy, I'd literally just watched an informative video on this yesterday.
[video=youtube;ex0URF-hWj4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex0URF-hWj4[/video]

[IAmIroningMyDog]

[QUOTE=DrDevil;44461136]But what else will I deepthroat from now on?[/QUOTE]

My dick

[Cakebatyr]

But they were perfectly created for us by god, how can some unsightly plague just wipe them out??????

[Jeep-Eep]

[QUOTE=Citrus705;44461254]My dick[/QUOTE]

It wouldn't reach that far.

[DrLuke]

[QUOTE=Citrus705;44461254]My dick[/QUOTE]

Sorry, but deepthroating requires a certain length

[C O Y O T E]

[QUOTE=Cakebatyr;44461428]But they were perfectly created for us by god, how can some unsightly plague just wipe them out??????[/QUOTE]

god works in mysterious ways :))

[HybridTheroy]

i will be extremely surprised if bananas are legitimately wiped out

[Evil_Knevil]

I doing some some research on this at university actually. We're looking into infecting the bananas with non-damaging fungi (other Fusarium oxysporum), so the damaging Fusarium oxysporum race 4, which causes the Panama disease, can't infect the plants anymore. There are soils in the world where this occurs naturally.

[dai]

[QUOTE=Vasili;44461223][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfX8taUsoEA[/media]

Heres our banana expert to tell us more.[/QUOTE]

this man's life work has lead up to this moment

[Grimhound]

This is what happens when an entire species is made up of clones of one mutation that has no ability to reproduce naturally. They're a marvel of human engineering, but seedless banana variants are all vulnerable to disease.

[MenteR]

[img]http://i1.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/011/587/AmazingAtheist.jpg[/img]

this sucks.

[editline]5th April 2014[/editline]

seriously tho i hope this doesn't affect brazilian crops.

[Antlerp]

[QUOTE=Cakebatyr;44461428]But they were perfectly created for us by god, how can some unsightly plague just wipe them out??????[/QUOTE]

the plague is sent by god to punish us for gays

[Captain Kep]

-Snip-

[That2D]

Whats stopping us from keeping a bunch of healthy banana plants in a vault somewhere till the fungus dies off with the bananas? Will the fungus stick around after?

[T553412]

[QUOTE=Grimhound;44461733]This is what happens when an entire species is made up of clones of one mutation that has no ability to reproduce naturally. They're a marvel of human engineering, but seedless banana variants are all vulnerable to disease.[/QUOTE]

Isn't this what caused the Great Irish Famine of 18-something? The lack of genetic diversity, that is

[Joey Skylynx]

Aye. This is also the problem by the way. We need to force some sort of regulation that forces people to mix it up with genetic diversity in order to prevent these types of things from occurring.

[sloppy_joes]

[QUOTE=Dr.HAXXXX;44463006]Whats stopping us from keeping a bunch of healthy banana plants in a vault somewhere till the fungus dies off with the bananas? Will the fungus stick around after?[/QUOTE]

it sticks around in the soil. it's not that cavendish bananas are going to go extinct, its just that they arent suitable for wide-scale commercial cultivation.

[Killuah]

To be honest I think the process and industry of transporting tropical fruits thousands of kilometers is kinda weird and confusing to me anyway, it seems so...freaky. All this energy and tech is cheap enough for me to be able to buy it.

[Deunan]

[QUOTE=Weirdness;44461152]This really ain't good. It's pretty much the only choice we've got when it comes to bananas.[/QUOTE]

Isn't the grand nain more common?

EDIT

Oh thought the article just meant the dwarf cavendish, not the whole group.

[W key broke]

[QUOTE=Vasili;44461223][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfX8taUsoEA[/media]

Heres our banana expert to tell us more.[/QUOTE]

"it tastes more like a banana"

WOW THANKS FOR THAT INFORMATIVE FUCKING OPINION

[Zorkov]

[QUOTE=Chonch;44461243]Creepy, I'd literally just watched an informative video on this yesterday.
[video=youtube;ex0URF-hWj4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex0URF-hWj4[/video][/QUOTE]

it's like this guy is trying to act exactly like john green

[AntonioR]

[QUOTE=W key broke;44464332]"it tastes more like a banana"

WOW THANKS FOR THAT INFORMATIVE FUCKING OPINION[/QUOTE]

Well... it could have tasted like grass, like some of the fruit you often find in the market.

[Dvd_]

[QUOTE=OrkO;44464665]it's like this guy is trying to act exactly like john green[/QUOTE]
I'm pretty sure that's John's brother Hank.

[Siduron]

Well, there goes one of the two fruits I do like.