Despite their ubiquity in grocery stores and in cereal bowls, a number of diseases threaten bananas, and farmers often have no way to fight back. One reason is that bananas have lost their ability to produce fertile seeds, so they can’t reproduce sexually.

As a result, there are a limited number of banana varieties. And an entire plantation generally consists of genetically identical plants. So, if a disease hits one, it usually hits them all.

Now Bananas might have gained a new weapon against a devastating disease: The green pepper.Bananas given green pepper genes are resistant to a devastating bacterial disease.If it works in the field, the genetic modification would secure banana health worldwide.Banana diseases cost African farmers hundreds of millions of dollars yearly.Bananas are one of the most important sustenance crops in the world.

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