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to these diseases, but it is very hard. Researchers in Honduras did
new variety of banana that was reststant to both diseases, but to do
pad to fertilize 30.000 banana plants by hand. From all that Work。
obtained a handful of fertile seeds. Genetic modification may be more
genome of the Cavendish banana and se
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varieties of wild banana to find genes that can resist disease.
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