More on the banana crisis

If you've been paying attention, there is a botanical scourge on the loose in Asia that is threatening to wipe out (eventually) the world's dominant type -- pretty much the only type grown -- of banana.

OK, so maybe I should be worrying about Ebola.  But I'm not going to Africa anytime soon.  But I do eat bananas.

Here's a very good article about why the scourge (actually a soil fungus) is so bad, the current status of the problem, and some efforts to fight it.

And it also talks about suckers.

Saving the banana