Bananas have been a cornerstone of diets worldwide, yet their future hangs in the balance due to a fungal disease known as ...

Following is a transcription of the video: Narrator: The world's most popular banana may be on the verge of extinction. Fernando: Similar to humans, bananas are also facing a pandemic. Narrator ...

Before the Cavendish, there was the original banana, which was called the Gros Michel. It was eaten prior to the 1950s, but by the 1960s, it was extinct, and the Cavendish became the norm.

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 the University of ...