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With only five trees reportedly remaining, a Madagascan banana species has been put on an extinction watchlist — and it could affect your supermarket stash.
The world's most popular banana faces extinction but scientists' new creation could help save it. Jenny McGrath. October 23, 2024 at 12:06 PM.
Bananas in a bowl. Enjoy your bananas while you have them, because they might not be around forever, as scientists fear one popular variety is on the brink of extinction.. The variety called ...
Although in no danger of outright extinction, bananas of the Cavendish group, which dominate the global market, are under threat. [85] There is a need to enrich banana biodiversity by producing diverse new banana varieties, not just focusing on the Cavendish. [86]
Cavendish bananas, accounting for around 99% of banana exports to developed countries, are vulnerable to the fungal disease known as Panama disease. There is a risk of extinction of the variety. Because Cavendish bananas are parthenocarpic (they don't have seeds and reproduce only through cloning), their
The average American eats 26.2 pounds (11.9 kg) of the Cavendish banana each year, and the question is being asked as to whether this oft-consumed fruit is on course to extinction. [14] Apart from the export trade, 85% of banana production is for local consumption and many of the cultivars used for this purpose are also susceptible to infection ...
Already, banana farmers have to make 50 fungicide applications per year due to the threat of disease -- which accounts for about a third of bananas costs. RELATED: Clever ways to use fruit.
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature is the best known worldwide conservation status listing and ranking system. . Species are classified by the IUCN Red List into nine groups set through criteria such as rate of decline, population size, area of geographic distribution, and degree of population and distribution fragmenta