Comment on Banana

• muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yes. Cavendish is in trouble.

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• MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They are a monoculture. Nature hates a monoculture. There’s a reason those don’t happen naturally.

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