![]() ![]() ![]() This ensures an identical, seedless fruit, harvest after harvest.įor this reason, bananas serve as an excellent example of one of the criticisms of the genetic engineering of food: Monoculture. Cavendish bananas are easy to grow because they are cultivated from genetically identical plants that grow on the roots of a mother plant. Today, of the over 1000 varieties of bananas, Cavendish bananas make up more than half of bananas exported to the U.S. ![]() After the Cavendish banana arrived in the Canary Islands, it went into large-scale production and never ceased. The bananas we eat today are direct descendants of this British-grown variety first established in the 1830s. The next time you bite carefree through a banana, thank horticulturalist William Cavendish. ![]()
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