• AphoticDev@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    This happened with bananas, and is still happening. It basically wiped out the most popular kind of banana globally decades ago, and it never recovered.

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      Apparently that wiped out species is the one that you slip on for comedic purposes in cartoons.

      Also, the banana aroma in sweets is an incredibly accurate representation of what that strain tasted like.

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      and is still happening.

      Don’t just brush past this. A new strain of Panama Disease now infects Cavandish, the current strain of bananas. It’s spread across the globe now, even to Colombia where most bananas are harvested.

      The closest replacement will be plantains. No other strain can be reliably mass harvested for global demand.