Bananas may soon be extinct

[Eldonia]

Something must be done! If we lose bananas, what will the internet use to measure things? I dread the thought of converting to metric Guava.

[Ghostmcghosty]

Amazing what people will do in the pursuit of making their dicks hard.

So rubbing wasabi in my anus will make my dick rock hard?

*Buys two pallets of wasabi and some Louisiana hot sauce for good measure*

[Deleted]

So rubbing wasabi in my anus will make my dick rock hard?

*Buys two pallets of wasabi and some Louisiana hot sauce for good measure*

no you just need some ginger. google "figging"

[Adam Jensen]

What am i gonna shove up my ass then?! Apples or pears?!?

Pineapples.

[Powerogue]

It happened once, which is why we now eat the cavendish instead. Hopefully some remnant of the banana's legacy will live on.

[Afrospinach]

Oh, just alarmist news then? Okay.

Each time an article starts with "So and so could be extinct in "This much time" if we don't do something" I usually see whatever they talk about being fine 10 years after the fact.

The one exception is endangered species like the White Rhino. Other than that, it will be fine.

This has already happened within the last 50 years to another species of banana.

It is because they are all clones.

[Collegeguy]

Isn't this how the movie Interstellar started out?

[Linri]

I like bananas, would be sad to not have one some day in the future.

I really like them in smoothies

[Reeve]

Tragedy. What will we call the underwear of well endowed men, now?

[sheggaro]

Oh no, not the bananas!

[Foosha]

There are no more viable strains. All current comercial bananas are offshots of the same strain and are just as susceptible to all three fungus above, plus the panama disease as well.

We would have to start from scratch with wild bananas, and spend decades cultivating them to be edible.




Cloning is what caused the problem. The plants cannot adapt to resist the infection because there is no genetic diversity and no mutation - we have effectively stopped their evolution, and in doing so doomed them to extinction.

"Wild bananas" Hahaha. Banana's cant reproduce on their own, so there is no genetic diversity either way. And for plants that can asexually reproduce, and are farmed, it's bound to happen

[Adam Jensen]

Isn't this how the movie Interstellar started out?

Today it's the last of the bananas

Tomorrow its the last of the okra.

Soon it will be the last of the corn . . . which is growing mysteriously tall and very well for being under constant threats of dust storms and on the verge of extinction. And who the hell is paying NASA anyways? And seriously? Corn is the one and only food left? How does that even . . . fuck you Nolan. Inception was good I guess.

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Tragedy. What will we call the underwear of well endowed men, now?

Manana hammock?

[Darsithis]

It's alarmist nonsense. Bananas are not about to be wiped out.

[Rudkobing]

No.... nnnnoooooooooo. Why did it have to bananas??

[Kapadons]

Good. I'm allergic to bananas. Burn them all.

[Cosmic Janitor]

Never liked bananas, so not a huge loss for me.. I doubt it is true though, given how we grow them on an industrial scale..

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Pineapples.

Damn, beat me to it..

[TirielWoW]

There are no more viable strains. All current comercial bananas are offshots of the same strain and are just as susceptible to all three fungus above, plus the panama disease as well.

We would have to start from scratch with wild bananas, and spend decades cultivating them to be edible.




Cloning is what caused the problem. The plants cannot adapt to resist the infection because there is no genetic diversity and no mutation - we have effectively stopped their evolution, and in doing so doomed them to extinction.

If they're all susceptible to it, I'm sure that scientists are, even now, developing a strain that's resistant to the fungal infections. It's not a difficult task.

[Adam Jensen]

Never liked bananas, so not a huge loss for me.. I doubt it is true though, given how we grow them on an industrial scale..

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Damn, beat me to it..

It's from a joke I read once:

Three men are flying over some remote country when their airplane's engine stalls and they make a crash landing. They all survive. While trying to find their way back to civilization, they get captured by a group of natives. They're brought before the chief and the chief says to them "I shall give you a task. If you succeed, I will spare your life and help you get home. If you fail, we'll kill you, cook you, and eat you."

The three men are handed baskets and are told to gather ten of one type of fruit. So they go off into the jungle.

The first man returns with ten apples. The chief says to him "Now shove the apples up your ass without making a sound or a face."

So the man tries, but he grimaces trying to get the second apple up so they kill him, cook him, and eat him.

The second man returns with ten blueberries. The chief gives him the same instructions.

The man gets to then 9th blueberry without making a sound or a face, but then suddenly bursts out in laughter and so they kill him, cook him, and eat him.

He meets the first man in heaven and the first man says "Why did you laugh? You were doing so well!"

The second man replies "I saw the third man coming back from the jungle with pineapples!"

[derpkitteh]

i hope something can be done. i love bananas.

[Deleted]

GMO the banana to be resistant to the fungi, or use fungicide.

But, but...GMO's are evil