Researchers have made a breakthrough in the race to save the world’s bananas from a devastating disease that could wipe them out, according to a new study.
The bananas we eat, called Cavendish bananas, are threatened by a plant-killing disease called fusarium wilt. This disease has already wiped out other banana varieties, and it devastated banana production in the 1950s.
But in the new study, researchers found that the disease strain threatening bananas today didn’t evolve from the strain that caused so much damage in the 20th century and that there may be a way to control its spread.
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