Inbred, Disease-Prone Bananas Put Breakfast in Peril
This study is bananas. Millenia of inbreeding have made the yellow fruit delicious and nutritious — but vulnerable to disease. Scientists tracing the banana’s wild family tree found that the plant hasn’t crossbred for 7,000 years. In fact, bananas don’t have sex at all. The typical supermarket specimen is an infertile clone with the prim
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Inbred, Disease-Prone Bananas Put Breakfast in Peril
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