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		sampo on Sept 10, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How the global banana industry is killing the worl... The banana cultivar we usually eat is the Canvendish Banana. This cultivar is propagated asexually so in a sense all of the banana plants are of the same clone. Attempting to fight the fungus with genetic engineering is extra tricky because of this, because the banana plants do not reproduce. But maybe someone finds a way. Anyway, I want to remind how papaya cultivation in Hawaii was almost wiped out by a virus disease, but they did some genetic engineering in the 1990's, and after that everything has been fine. http://hawaiitribune-herald.com/sections/news/local-news/pap... Well, Europe still bans the import of GMO food. But at least everyone else gets to eat Hawaiian papaya.

sebastianavina on Sept 11, 2014 | [–]

it's amazing how the human can make a plant like the banana and maize evolve to fulfill our needs

rpenm on Sept 11, 2014 | [–]

You could also say that we have evolved to fulfill the plant's needs (ie. genetic propagation).

robmcm on Sept 11, 2014 | | [–]

No, this has mostly been done in a single human generation. We haven't evolved during the evolution of the plants.

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