I also wonder, if in addition to looking at genetically modifying the banana to be resistant, what about modifying the fungus so that a strain is symbiotic with the banana and instead of killing it's host, it was able to keep going because the host isn't killed?
That's all very hand wavy, but I was thinking, might not another alternative be modifying the enemy (bacteria or virus) so that there is a selective weight to a more beneficial alternate bacteria?
Of course, any part of humans trying to manage the food supply, or nature in general, will have unintended downstream consequences, but I wonder if there are some other ways to approach the problem.
Also, of commercial bananas don't replicate via seeds, why do they have seeds at all?
That's all very hand wavy, but I was thinking, might not another alternative be modifying the enemy (bacteria or virus) so that there is a selective weight to a more beneficial alternate bacteria? Of course, any part of humans trying to manage the food supply, or nature in general, will have unintended downstream consequences, but I wonder if there are some other ways to approach the problem.
Also, of commercial bananas don't replicate via seeds, why do they have seeds at all?