The days of organic bananas – and perhaps all exported bananas – may be numbered, according to recent reports. A highly virulent and incurable strain of a fungus known as Panama disease, which afflicts the Cavendish banana – the major type of banana that is imported into the U.S. -- is spreading across plantations around the world (Butler 2013). The Cavendish banana is especially susceptible to the fungus because every one of these bananas is a cloned, genetic replica of all the others. The Cavendish has not developed variants that may be resistant to Panama disease. Organic bananas grown without synthetic insecticides and fungicides are often slightly more expensive than conventional bananas... again their days are numbered. ewg.org/enviroblog/2014/04/bananas
Posted on: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 23:41:55 +0000
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