{"id":3806,"date":"2015-07-23T15:15:26","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T19:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=3806"},"modified":"2015-07-23T15:15:26","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T19:15:26","slug":"how-gmos-offer-unexpected-salvation-from-a-potential-banana-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/07\/how-gmos-offer-unexpected-salvation-from-a-potential-banana-apocalypse\/","title":{"rendered":"“How GMOs Offer Unexpected Salvation from a Potential Banana Apocalypse”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you know that bananas are one of the biggest monocultures that exist in agriculture? \u00a0Almost every banana we see in the grocery store is a clone of the Cavendish banana, which has disease resistance and good traveling qualities that make it\u00a0profitable for banana farmers. \u00a0But now a new disease called “Fusarium Oxysporum Tropical Race Four” is threatening to destroy Cavendish banana cultivation as it spreads around the world. \u00a0To provide new varieties which may be more resistant to this “banana HIV”, genetic modification may be the best hope. \u00a0You can read about this at\u00a0https:\/\/magazine.good.is\/articles\/cavendish-banana-fungus-monoculture-gmos<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While the article does not address climate directly, it does show the susceptibility of agriculture to impacts when the agriculture lacks diversity. \u00a0Here in the Southeast, we already use\u00a0a great deal of crop diversity which may make us less prone to threats from attacks on individual crops than a monoculture cultivation. \u00a0Increased use of a variety of crops in the future may make Southeastern farmers more resilient to changes in climate in the future.<\/p>\n

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Did you know that bananas are one of the biggest monocultures that exist in agriculture? \u00a0Almost every banana we see in the grocery store is a clone of the Cavendish banana, which has disease resistance and good traveling qualities that make it\u00a0profitable for banana farmers. \u00a0But now a new disease called “Fusarium Oxysporum Tropical Race […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":3807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-crops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3808,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806\/revisions\/3808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}