Bananas

Damn Interesting 8/24: The Unfortunate Sex Life of the Banana

The short article covers everything from how the current breed we are all so familiar with, the Cavendish, was produced as the strange (but magnificent) hybrid of two wild plant species and selectively bred over many generations, to the all-too-possible event of 'bananagedden' occurring as the result of the Cavendish's susceptibility to insects and disease.

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