There are plenty of resistant banana varieties out there. They gained their resistance by reproducing normally and adapting to the new fungi. However, that very fact makes it less palatable for the western market, because fertile bananas have hard seeds in them that make them harder to eat.
What the big banana growers are looking for is another sterile banana variety that they can plant from cuttings that will never evolve, but will somehow be resistant to all the new fungi that nature is likely to throw at it in the future. Not that likely to happen.
What the big banana growers are looking for is another sterile banana variety that they can plant from cuttings that will never evolve, but will somehow be resistant to all the new fungi that nature is likely to throw at it in the future. Not that likely to happen.