Наконец-то контент, соответствующий названию канала. За ссылку на новый журнал о синтетической биологии спасибо дайджесту антропоцена.
"The level of alarm is justified: Cavendish has no resistance to TR4, and farmers have few if any treatments available. At this point, when TR4 attacks a banana crop, the farmer abandons the entire area of land and begins anew on a fresh plot. It’s only a matter of time before there is no clean land left for planting Cavendish bananas.
We know this, because it happened once before. In the mid-20th century, another Fusarium strain, Tropical Race 1 (TR1), attacked the Gros Michel banana, the most popular export banana at the time. TR1 quickly spread around the world, and by the 1960s, banana growers admitted defeat and switched to growing the Cavendish. While neither as tasty nor robust as the “Big Mike,” it was at least resistant to TR1.
This time, things may turn out differently. Armed with the latest gene editing technology, scientists are racing to design a better banana."
"The level of alarm is justified: Cavendish has no resistance to TR4, and farmers have few if any treatments available. At this point, when TR4 attacks a banana crop, the farmer abandons the entire area of land and begins anew on a fresh plot. It’s only a matter of time before there is no clean land left for planting Cavendish bananas.
We know this, because it happened once before. In the mid-20th century, another Fusarium strain, Tropical Race 1 (TR1), attacked the Gros Michel banana, the most popular export banana at the time. TR1 quickly spread around the world, and by the 1960s, banana growers admitted defeat and switched to growing the Cavendish. While neither as tasty nor robust as the “Big Mike,” it was at least resistant to TR1.
This time, things may turn out differently. Armed with the latest gene editing technology, scientists are racing to design a better banana."