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A banana that doesnāt brown? Now thatās bananas! š Tropic has developed some new bananas via gene editing that donāt brown after they are peeled, and have been approved for sale in the Philippines, Colombia, Honduras, the US and Canada āBananas are asexual,ā said Gershon. āThereās no real breeding in bananas. Weāre eating today the same bananas as our grandparents were eating in the 1950s. The only real opportunity we have to adjust the banana to meet the challenges the industry is facing is through gene editing.ā In addition to the bananas which are set to launch, the article touches on the myriad of ways in-progress teams are working on using gene editing to āupdateā our food supply. The team behind the purple tomato (remember that?) is working on super long lasting potatoes š„ https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/07/gene-edited-non-browning-banana-cut-food-waste-tropic-norwich
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if we can't change bananas without future science then how did we get from here to chaquita
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What is that known as formally. I tried to reverse search this image and got nothing. I can tell you if you tell me. Unless my reverse search is right and youāre playing me and thatās a passionfruit š
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'Seeded banana aka wild banana (Musa balbisiana) is a wild banana species that is one of the ancestors to the common species cultivated today. This fruit contains viable seeds. Plant them and grow your own seeded banana plants.'
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Okay thank you ā„ļø I apologize I misread your original cast too which didnāt help. I thought you were saying seedless bananas were changed into this new fruit called a chiqita (instead of referring to Chiquita) Because of my initial confusion going to write this out in a way that retraces some already covered ground The difference here is between wild and commercial bananas Wild (pictured) have seeds Commercial are seedless and are vegetatively propagated We got from seeded to the asexual seedless through selective breeding, until the final plant was triploid and asexual https://oxsci.org/why-bananas-could-disappear-from-our-supermarkets/ We gene bank bananas to conserve them and preserve the diversity of the species because weāve made them asexual https://musanet.org/banana-collections/
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ahhh very interesting. i remember hearing sometime back, that bananas as we know them could possibly go extinct somehow. makes sense
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