{"id":12017,"date":"2020-06-20T21:22:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T18:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/bananas-fighting-deadly-fungus-in-global-crisis\/"},"modified":"2020-06-20T21:22:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T18:22:00","slug":"bananas-fighting-deadly-fungus-in-global-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bananas-fighting-deadly-fungus-in-global-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"#Bananas fighting deadly fungus in global crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Bananas fighting deadly fungus in global crisis<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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June 20, 2020 |<\/span> 2:22pm <\/p>\n

\n This is bananas.<\/p>\n

The world\u2019s favorite fruit is fighting its own pandemic: a fungus called Tropical Race 4 (TR4), or Panama Disease, that attacks the plant\u2019s vascular system.<\/p>\n

Scientists around the globe are racing to stop the spread of TR4, which surfaced 30 years ago but is now ravaging banana fields in more than 20 countries in Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America, where tons of bananas are shipped to the US.<\/p>\n

Their solutions include creating a genetically modified variety as well as a vaccine, the BBC reported.<\/p>\n

Right now, all that can be done is to quarantine the infected farms and enforce biosecurity measures such as disinfecting boots and preventing the movement of plants between growers \u2014 the banana equivalent of hand washing and social<\/a> distancing.<\/p>\n

Seventy years ago, TR4 decimated the crops in Asia and Central America in what plant expert Fernando Garc\u00eda-Bastidas calls \u201cone of the worst botanical epidemics in history.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fungus was so devastating, Garc\u00eda-Bastidas said, because the bananas were all the same variety \u2014 the Gros Michel or \u201cBig Mike.\u201d<\/p>\n

Researchers developed another variety, the Cavendish, that TR4 is now attacking, too.\u00a0 Now, they\u2019re back in their labs \u2014 scrambling.<\/p>\n

At his lab in the Netherlands, Garc\u00eda-Bastidas is using the latest techniques in DNA sequencing to identify genes resistant to TR4 and breed bananas that may be able to withstand the disease, as well as being commercially viable.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have hundreds of varieties of app<\/a>les,\u201d he points out. \u201cWhy not start offering different varieties of bananas?\u201d<\/p>\n

But a British expert thinks the best way for the banana industry to survive TR4 is to change how the fruit is farmed.<\/p>\n

Dan Bebber, who has spent three years studying the\u00a0supply system as part of a\u00a0UK government-funded project BananEx, wants banana farmers to grow their crop in organic soil, which is rich in microbes that fight TR4, and plant seasonal crops between rows to increase shelter and fertility.<\/p>\n

The changes would increase the cost of bananas but make the crop more sustainable in the long run, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor years we have failed to take into account the social and environmental cost of bananas,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is time to start paying a fair price, not only for the workers and the environment, but the health of the bananas themselves.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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