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the banana apocalypse may be near, but according to research published in nature microbiology , an international team of scientists led by the university of massachusetts amherst has made a discovery that might be the key to slowing or even controlling the spread of disease.
“the kind of banana we eat today is not the same as the one your grandparents ate. those old ones, the gros michel bananas, are functionally extinct , victims of the first fusarium outbreak in the 1950s,” li-jun ma , professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at umass amherst and the paper’s senior author, said in a statement.
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“thousands of hectares of cavendish have already been destroyed, and many will follow if we are unable to stop fusarium wilt,” according to wageningen university & research in the netherlands, which wasn’t involved in the nature microbiology paper.
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