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Bananas may be going (close to) extinct, new study says
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---today’s bananas have been cultivated as a monoculture — all bananas are genetically identical because they’ve been grown as a seedless variety, which means that when one gets sick, they all get sick.
---the virus, which kills essentially by dehydrating the plant’s root system, can stay in the soil for 30 years---
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