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I have some bad news about bananas. The current strain we use as food is going extinct as the banana trees are ill and dying out. Luckily we’re already changing a different strain to be ready for consumption (making them bigger and without seeds because yes, wild bananas are full of seeds).

Also cocoa plants are ill and dying and we don’t have a different strain. So some time in the future we will be without chocolate.

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LadyButterfly@reddthat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
NO CHOCOLATE??? I can’t bear the thought of no chocolate

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JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
It’s also not the first time it’s happened to bananas. You know how banana candy tastes so different to the real thing. That’s how the previous commercial strain used to taste before it was nearly exticted by disease.

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- TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I thought it was because the chemical banana taste is just a bit different becsue of how it’s made, but apparently it’s because it’s based on older bananas, as I found out in this article.
  
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- ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Big mike! Or gros Michel. Whichever you prefer to call it.
  
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faultyproboscus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
The replacement for the Cavendish is already being sold commercially in Australia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfinger_banana

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Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Bananas have seeds? 😳

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- Scavenger_Solardaddy@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Yes, the wild ones. They’re delicious, way better than a Cavendish but full of hard, black seeds. Like this:Image
  
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- Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Wild bananas, yes.
  
  The ones you eat are a perfect example of a genetically modified plant - cultivated specifically for human consumption.
  
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  - Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    they are also triploids, means they are sterile. they do some wierd things like forcing the original bananas to have unreduced gametes. Also note that polyploidy in planets allows them to do this naturally, also give a them evolutionary advantages, the ones that arnt odd number polyploids.
    
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- Gremour@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Well, every natural plant have seeds. They need to reproduce. Those without seeds go extinct in one generation.
  
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  - Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    for some. some can clone themselves indefinitely, while still maintaing thier ability outcross(breed). there are some small examples of natural hybrids that are sterile and can only clone/reproduce because they are triploids. like strawberries can have up to 8n of thier chromosones, and hybridize.
    
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- TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Like the other replies say, wild ones do. But the ones we eat used to have them too, but we did the same magic on them as we did on wolves by creating pugs. They used to be small and so full of seeds there was barily any eatable parts.
  
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Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
or using different species, like blue or red ones instead. wild ones have huge seeds.

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Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I have a sudden inspiration for a new gmo food.

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- ranzispa@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  People are working on that already. Did not work until now as far as I know.
  
  This is a problem that has been known for a while.
  
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  - Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    My Choconanas will take the world by storm
    
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