date:Dec 20, 2013
g other varieties of bananas that would replace the Cavendish, which is susceptible to the fungus. Some experts say the days of the Cavendish are numbered.
Nature magazine is only slightly less pessimistic, pronouncing that fears rise that the fungus will make the continental jump to Latin America, where Chiquita grows almost all of its bananas. Lloyd says thats much ado about very little. Its not a sky is falling sort of situation, he says. The fungus is a soil-borne, which usually requires t