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Correspondence
Nature 421, 889 (27 February 2003) | doi:10.1038/421889b
Novel and conventional paths to a better banana
David Jones1
- Editor, Diseases of Banana, Abacá and Enset, 12 Charlotte Brontë Drive, Droitwich Spa, Worcestershire WR9 7HU, UK
Your News Feature "A dying breed" (Nature 421, 568–570; 2003) highlights the threat to commercial banana plantations from a strain of Panama disease. Scare stories predicting the imminent end of the banana if this fungal pathogen spreads to Latin America have been blown up out of all proportion in the media (see, for example, New Scientist 26–29, 18 January 2003).
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