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The Original Banana Became Extinct In The 1960s Due To Something Called Panama Disease
Before the Cavendish, there was the original banana, which was called the Gros Michel. It was eaten prior ... Cavendish bananas do not have any seeds. They reproduce through cloning, so they ...
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The Beginning of the End for Bananas?
Our standard supermarket banana, a variety called Cavendish, may be at the brink of disaster. Chosen for its resistance to a fungal pathogen that wiped out its predecessor, the Gros Michel banana, the ...