Comment on Banana
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
They tend to go extinct every so often and need a different variety to replace them.
Comment on Banana
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
They tend to go extinct every so often and need a different variety to replace them.
buttnugget@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Is there concern about the cavendish?
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Yes. Cavendish is in trouble.
MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks 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.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
They are a monoculture. Nature hates a monoculture. There’s a reason those don’t happen naturally.