Kyllä tiede sen banaaninkin lopulta pelastaa:
Researchers have gone bananas over this fruit’s complex ancestry Genomic analyses suggest three mysterious ancestors contributed DNA to the modern-day banana
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The field remains ripe with possibility: Sardos and other banana aficionados are hoping to visit small farms and other sites in the ancestral bananas’ homelands to see whether they can find more modern descendants. They, too, may yield a stock resistant to disease that can be crossbred with commercial bananas. “There is a lot of unsampled banana diversity out there,” Rieseberg says.
Tuossakin artikkelissa on kuva villibanaaneista. Ei ihan suoraan herätä syömishimoa.
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Ja täälätä toisaalta löytyy kuva jo jotenkin pelastetusta:
https://mobile.twitter.com/AgBioWorld/status/1589364722822176769/photo/1Channa Prakash
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Scientists in Africa gene-edit bananas 🍌 to develop resistance against a deadly bacterial wilt disease. Photo: Greenhouse evaluation of mutant (D15) and wild-type (WT) plants for resistance against Xanthomonas campestris pv. musacearum
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pbi.13614#.YKyeD-21cIU.linkedin