Comment on Banana

muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• buttnugget@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Is there concern about the cavendish?

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  • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yes. Cavendish is in trouble.

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  • MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I could be just parroting a myth, but aren’t they all genetic clones? So anything that evolves to attack one has evolved to attack all, potentially quickly wiping out just about all of them. And I think this happened with the banana we used before this one so now they’re rare and super expensive.

    Through standardizing the banana, we’ve removed biodiversity.

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    • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      They are a monoculture. Nature hates a monoculture. There’s a reason those don’t happen naturally.

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