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The same thing happened to the Gros Michel cultivar in the 1950s.

That's why there's only one cultivar in US supermarkets in the first place.

If the genetic engineering works out, can we go back to the Gros Michel cultivar?

[1] Or any specialized cultivar, for that matter.

I don't think I'd have a problem with GMO that inserted genes from one Musa cultivar into another.

We might actually be eating a different banana cultivar now than you did when you were a child.

Well if we create a big enough niche by growing a very specific cultivar, something's going to fill it.

This cultivar is propagated asexually so in a sense all of the banana plants are of the same clone.

They're supposed to be a very hot cultivar of the jolokia, but none of the ones I've bought have actually been all that hot.

If there were another natural cultivar resistant to the latest strain of the fungus, it would already be in use.

I haven't completely ruled out the idea that there's something unique to the Japanese cultivar, though.

In the HOA busybody's mind, a weed is anything that is not the approved cultivar of grass and anything taller than 4 inches high.

>Can you name examples of this "brittleness", how it is caused and how it has affected the food supply when compared to another way of farmingNot the parent but yes. Look at the history of banana cultivars.

A different cultivar, the 'Cavendish' was found to be resistant to the strain of Panama disease that afflicted the Gros Michel.

Also affected are the important plantain cultivars that feed some 400 million people, as well as numerous cooking and dessert cultivars.

Canola is actually a specific cultivar of Rapeseed.

Nonetheless I can see how that'd be difficult from a branding perspective; if you're going to introduce a new cultivar and try to charge more for it, it's easier if it's really distinctive in appearance.

Whether improvement happens slowly as farmers turn some wild grass into maize with a cultivar 100X the size of a wild variety or happens rapidly as modern breeders optimize for traits on a quick cycle, domestication is narrow optimization.

Grapes and bananas are relatively high in sugar but most fruits aren't carbohydrate-dense and even then, bananas are a genetically modified domestic cultivar and definitely a product of agriculture.

\nWhile nowhere near as devasting to humanity, the destruction of the Gros Michel banana cultivar and the impending threat of the newest banana-phage on the current Cavendish cultivar aren't exactly a good faith offering on future mono-cultures, GMO or not, being avoided.