Source: BLASTING NEWS, 10/11/17


A deadly fungus called TR4, short for Panama disease Tropical Race 4, is caused by the Fusarium oxysporum fungus and can live in the soil for up to 30 years -- making it especially difficult to eradicate. Fungicides also appear to be useless against it, leaving producers with few options. James Dale, a professor of biotechnology at Queensland University of Technology, and his laboratory, introduced genes (a process known as transgenesis) from a subspecies of wild sweet bananas into a cultivar of banana called Cavendish, which makes up 95 percent of exported bananas globally. On a related note, #gmo apples that suppress 

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