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Your bananas can be counted. According to the Times, a disease caused by famine, called Panama disease, is expected to eradicate much of the world's banana crops in the near future, the Times writes. Currently, Panamania is rife in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Australia and Central America.
If the fungal disease reaches South America, the Cavendish banana, which is the world's most sold and consumed banana, will die. In Britain, only five billion Cavendish bananas are consumed each year.
At the same time, plant biologists are rapidly developing a banana variety resistant to fungal diseases, including the fruits of a wild species in Madagascar. The cross is that at the present time there are only five mature trees of the highly immune species.
No new Panamanian attack
attacks banana roots and annihilates them. It is often enough for an infected fruit to destroy whole crops of bananas. And the devastating raid of Panamanic is not new – Gros Michael, the dominant banana before 1950, has completely disappeared after a similar attack of mushroom.
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