spartan max2 Posted March 18, 2014 #1 Share Posted March 18, 2014 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/18/opinion/18koeppel.html So apparently the Yellow bananas we all know and love may be gone in a decade( the Cavendish banana). A fungus is killing them all and since we mutate bananas to all be clones of each other all the bananas will die unless a solution is found Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilly Posted March 18, 2014 #2 Share Posted March 18, 2014 NO.....!!!!....NO.....!!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donnie Darko Posted March 18, 2014 #3 Share Posted March 18, 2014 This sucks. I like bananas! They're cheap and healthy. I mean, smoothies aren't the same without bananas. Hope they find a solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilly Posted March 18, 2014 #4 Share Posted March 18, 2014 I LOVE banana bread. I'm so not happy with this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6.6.6 Posted March 18, 2014 #5 Share Posted March 18, 2014 The world will be better off without them! They have been bombarding us with radiation since we gave up our ration cards! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6.6.6 Posted March 18, 2014 #6 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Cucumber sales will go up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AZDZ Posted March 18, 2014 #7 Share Posted March 18, 2014 On the bright side, those spiders which nest in them may go away too. I jest because I really don't think this is as bad as that "OPINION" piece makes it out to be. Not Every banana in the world comes from clone stock, resistant strains must still be elsewhere in the world. It does have a point about prices, but those will always be going up anyway for other reasons beside supply and demand. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redhen Posted March 18, 2014 #8 Share Posted March 18, 2014 And thus we see the problem with monoculture. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spud the mackem Posted March 18, 2014 #9 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Tally man ,Tally man,tally de Banana,daylight come an' I wanna go home. Jamaica....no she did it on her own.... Oh well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little_dreamer Posted March 18, 2014 #10 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Bananas at $1 a pound; I can live with that. I don't think that this would affect all species. Plenty of dwarf banana plants can still be grown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Still Waters Posted March 18, 2014 #11 Share Posted March 18, 2014 http://www.nytimes.c.../18koeppel.html So apparently the Yellow bananas we all know and love may be gone in a decade( the Cavendish banana). Well it's been almost six years already. That article was Published: June 18, 2008. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little_dreamer Posted March 18, 2014 #12 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Good catch, SW. I'm still paying less than $0.69 for bananas. False alarm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spartan max2 Posted March 18, 2014 Author #13 Share Posted March 18, 2014 (edited) Well it's been almost six years already. That article was Published: June 18, 2008. I just picked the first article I saw. barley read it myself I just mentioned it because today my human biology professor mention that in the next ten years the breed of banana we all eat might be gone due to the fungus. Personally I think its a problem that will be solved but its still interesting. Edited March 18, 2014 by spartan max2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spartan max2 Posted March 18, 2014 Author #14 Share Posted March 18, 2014 (edited) here is a more recent one. December 2013 http://www.cbsnews.c...for-top-banana/ Another interesting thing apparently Costa Rico has declared a "Banana emergency"(but it seems to be more from pest then fungus) http://www.freshplaz...on#SlideFrame_1 Edited March 18, 2014 by spartan max2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freetoroam Posted March 18, 2014 #15 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Here is a moe upto date report on this: https://www.wageningenur.nl/en/show/Panama-disease-spreads-among-bananas-again.htm Our supermarket has plenty of bananas, if 80% of the plantations are now affected, where are all these bananas coming from and are they safe to eat? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indiogene Posted March 18, 2014 #16 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Bananas are a product of artificial selection: human intervention created the banana as we know it. Banana farmers will have to find ways to make bananas adapt to current situations, and evolve them again to produce the next generation of bananas. Breed them with a "new" species of banana immune to the fungus (I doubt it's ever found) and a fungus-resistant banana subspecies is born. Unless the current bananas develop resistance from mutations in their DNA, the banana will become a rare delicacy in the future. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little_dreamer Posted March 19, 2014 #17 Share Posted March 19, 2014 Artificial banana flavoring will live on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psyche101 Posted March 19, 2014 #18 Share Posted March 19, 2014 Is the Lady Finger safe? I have two cavendish in captivity at home, I am going to try and breed them.......... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MordorOrc Posted March 20, 2014 #19 Share Posted March 20, 2014 South America is then set to make big bucks off the sale of palatins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psyche101 Posted March 20, 2014 #20 Share Posted March 20, 2014 It worked!! I bred bananas! Now I just need to work on getting both the bananas to breed........ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junior Chubb Posted March 20, 2014 #21 Share Posted March 20, 2014 (edited) *Image removed to save the mental state of UM users* I laughed and was going to like your post, Then I was hit by a moment of clarity and I realised how disturbing that image is. Edited March 20, 2014 by Junior Chubb 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bendy Demon Posted March 20, 2014 #22 Share Posted March 20, 2014 I am not all that fond of bananas but there ARE other species of edible bananas. Could we not cross-pollinate to create something new? And I am not speaking of genetically altered species either, just cross-pollination. Maybe by doing so we can refresh the gene pool, as it were, so the resistance can be built up again or whatever. (Yeah, I know. I am not all that knowledgeable on genetics) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spartan max2 Posted March 20, 2014 Author #23 Share Posted March 20, 2014 I am not all that fond of bananas but there ARE other species of edible bananas. Could we not cross-pollinate to create something new? And I am not speaking of genetically altered species either, just cross-pollination. Maybe by doing so we can refresh the gene pool, as it were, so the resistance can be built up again or whatever. (Yeah, I know. I am not all that knowledgeable on genetics) Im in the same boat as you. That seems like a plausible plan to me. I have no clue why they haven't done that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coldethyl Posted March 21, 2014 #24 Share Posted March 21, 2014 It worked!! I bred bananas! Now I just need to work on getting both the bananas to breed........ Am frightened now and want me mum. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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