There is already a gene modified cavendish that is resistant to the fungi, but it’s not legal in the EU so it’s not being used yet
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Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 months agoThat old version “Gros Michel” is what artificial banana flavour is based on. Bananas used to taste like that. The newer “Cavendish” variety is firmer and lasts longer, but doesn’t have the same flavour. It seems like both are being wiped out by disease though, yay monoculture.
Cavendish seem to be especially vulnerable because they’re all clones. They don’t produce viable seeds, so they’re grafted to new plants.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Gladaed@feddit.org 2 months ago
Are you an AI?
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Nope, all dirty fleshbag. I just like knowing things and hope others do too. :)
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
autism for the win yeah :)
Gladaed@feddit.org 2 months ago
Gros Michel and many other bananas are clones, too. So are apples.
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Not all apples, but many. Including Macintosh, which was found along a road and could never produce viable seeds. There were only three trees for like 30 years before people noticed that they tasted rather good. All Macintosh apples today are grafts of the one surviving tree.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
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InnerScientist@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 2 months ago
banana pic incoming
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Maybe, but they are right (AI or fleshbag). I love artificial banana flavour way more then the current banana and have dived deep into the madness that is the banana industry. We are eating lies when we could have been eating Gros Michels if only greed did not prevail.
shneancy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
god no do not bring back Gros Michels, artificial banana flavour is bleh
i suppose soon we’ll have to compromise and start liking (or not) a new banana flavour though, if that banana disease gets to the current version
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Agreed. I accidentally bought tropical antacids and like 50% of them are banana flavor. I’d rather just have indigestion
wolfrasin@lemmy.today 2 months ago
The lost variety is the Runts candy banana and it makes me sad that it’s gross
BanMe@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well. Artificial flavoring is typically identifying 1 or 2 compounds that occur within a fruit, whereas the fruit has dozens of these compounds. Imagine what artificial apple flavoring is to green apples - that’s what Runts is to the Gros banana.
You can still get the Gros in some places but it’s not grown at scale, has to be isolated.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
[deleted]RaccoonBall@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Its been working ok with apples
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I misunderstood.
Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Might’ve gone on a search bout baanas last night. I now prefer goldenfinger, a type AA cultivar I have never seen in my entire life.