Tropical Race Four , a soil - born fungus , has been destroy bananas across the world . It kills the plant and reach bananas smell like garbage . That deadly fungus is expected to score Central America , which is where we get all our banana tree from .
There are a thousand character of bananas in the world but only one represent 99 % of the banana tree export mart . That ’d be the Cavendish banana . Cavendish bananas master the export securities industry because they supply farmers “ with a high yield of palatable yield that can endure oversea trip without mature too chop-chop or bruising too easily ” .
One problem , though . By relying alone on the Cavendish banana ( and clones of the Cavendish ) , one disease can wipe out a whole ton o ’ bananas in one wholesale motion . Tropical Race Four is that disease , and it ’s already wiped out Cavendish banana tree in Asia and Australia with newspapers around the world calling it the “ HIV of banana plantations ” .
The suspicious affair is the Cavendish banana tree actually replaced another banana tree ( Gros Michel ) in the 1950 ’s because that one got stricken with the Panama disease . History is repeating itself but this time scientists are work feverishly in an endeavour to save our banana tree population . Let ’s hope they succeed . understand the full story at theNew Yorker[New Yorker ]
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