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Saving the Cavendish banana.

The bananas we know and love were not always the top banana in the market. A disease wiped out their top competitor the Gros Michel, leaving them in pole position. Now there’s a disease coming for the Cavendish. “After earlier […]

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A fungus is out to kill our bananas

The world’s favorite banana until the 1960s, the Gros Michel, was quite different from our bananas today. It lost its dominance due to a fungus. That blew my mind. Now our Cavendish banana is under a similar threat. | learn more