popsci.com — I love bananas. Popular Science has an article about how they are going extinct. Apparently in the early 1900's the main table variety of banana went extinct and was replaced by what we eat now. According to Popular Science this is happening again.
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jrmcgrath13Sep 19, 2005
Dupe... <a class="user" href="http://digg.com/science/Can_banana_be_saved_">http://digg.com/science/Can_banana_be_saved_</a>But the old page isn't up anymore, so I guess this digg is valid now.
Closed AccountSep 19, 2005
None of this is correct. If you ever travel to Asia you'll see that there are dozens of different banana species that we never receive in the states. I wish we did though cause most of them are better.
v_specSep 19, 2005
old newsread it on abovetopsecret about 2 years ago
awizzle22Sep 20, 2005
wow how many times has this been posted on digg I had it on my blog about 2 months ago and this is old news i cant believe so many people dugg it but an interesting story either way
temmonsSep 20, 2005Submitter
Yeah they aren't going to kill their crops, the fungus is.
khigy777Sep 20, 2005
I thought this article was the poo, man. Who knew, man, who knew. I was changed, that's all I gotta say. Sweet digg.
jon2x4Sep 20, 2005
Wow that sucks.Now I'm going to try out a "Is there anymore bananas left?" in the Cumberland Farms store.lol
infra172Sep 20, 2005
Bananas will never go extinct as long as people eat them. God bless capitalism!
temmonsSep 21, 2005Submitter
<a class="user" href="http://www.kitchencontraptions.com/archives/001012.php">http://www.kitchencontraptions.com/archives/001012.php</a>That's how we save the banana.
bobetrSep 22, 2005
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csansburyDec 29, 2005
refuted on 2003
schlechtjMar 16, 2006
Seeds ARE the reason it is going extinct. Not directly of course. The problem is that the banana does not reproduce sexually, all Cavendish bananas are clones. That means that when there is one disease or pest that destroys one banana, it has the capacity to kill them all because there is no diversity in the gene pool to evade that threat. Planting a limb or what not is the same thing because it is genetically identical to the original plant.