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  • From: "Stephen Sadler" <Docshiva@Docshiva.org>
  • To: "'North American Fruit Explorers'" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Breeding bananas for disease resistance
  • Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 20:46:32 -0800

The Cavendish is the second monocultured variety sold widely. The first was
the Gros Michel, available through roughly 1960. It was pretty much wiped
out by tropical race one, an earlier version of the fusarium that is now
threatening the Cavendish.
Not a new story, this. Here's an article from '08:

http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2008-06/can-fruit-be-saved

~ Stephen

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[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Ernest Plutko
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 12:09 PM
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Breeding bananas for disease resistance

I am going in a few months to Costa Rica to look at banana trees.

---- Original Message ----
From: dwoodard@becon.org
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Breeding bananas for disease resistance
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:53:05 -0500

>New Yorker article, abstract/precis at
>
><http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/01/10/110110fa_fact_peed>
>
>Doug Woodard
>St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
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