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The world's commercial banana production is in grave danger from a soil infection. Believe it or not, most bananas sold in the west and in India and China are Cavendish bananas; clones of one plant grown by the Duke of Devonshire's gardener on the Chatsworth estate, many years ago.
Now a fungus has evolved that attacks the Cavendish strain and kills it; it also attacks many other strains of banana. It seems we face a future without bananas!
The Cavendish strain is by no means the tastiest banana - I tasted bananas of other types grown for their taste when in Thailand and some of them taste absolutely exquisite compared to the average supermarket ones in the west!
