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The banana apocalypse is near, but biologists might have found a key to their survival

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The banana apocalypse is near, but biologists might have found a key to their survival

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science@lemmy.world · 3 months ago

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The bananas in your supermarket and that you eat for breakfast are facing functional extinction due to the disease Fusarium wilt of banana (FWB), caused by a fungal pathogen called Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense (Foc) tropical race 4 (TR4).

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Not planting in monocultures for example?

Mixing with other crops might help already.

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