https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusarium_oxysporum_f.sp._cubense
>It is considered inevitable that this susceptibility will spread to the Western Hemisphere, and this poses a significant threat to production because there are currently no acceptable replacement cultivars.
*kills literally all of your bananas*
Haha whoops sorry guys!
>mod fungus genes so it looks and tastes like banana
Problem solved.
banananas must evolve or face the consequences of natural selection
if us humans intervene it could have catastrophic consequesnes, like how helping a butterfly out of its cocoon kills it
>>9091783
Humans have already interfered by controlled breeding the Banana until it doesn't have seeds any more and can only "reproduce" by having a human cut off a shoot from the base and replant it. Modern bananas literally can not reproduce at all without human intervention.
>>9091798
I have more in common with a modern banana than i thought
>>9091798
>can only "reproduce" by...
Well, since bananas are a virus. I guess you can't kill what was never alive.
>>9091807
This
>>9091744
bananas are fucking delicious little shit fruits that make my mouth swell bc of an allergic reaction and every encounter with one has been a soul tormenting detente, i choose to see fusarium as the world being a bro and resolving this lifelong problem
Bump
Come on /sci/ we gotta solve this
>>9091812
t. Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense
The bananas we eat today are cultivars. Fusarium is already present in most growth areas.
Resistance can be produced in other cultivars and these strains can replace the existing seedless ones. Either that or we all die of the dreaded banana drought....