The fungus that devastates the Cavendish banana has now arrived in Latin America
&gt; Other scientists—most notably, James Dale of the Queensland University of Technology in Australia—are testing genetically modified disease-resistant Cavendish bananas, but public acceptance of GMOs could prove a significant obstacle to their widespread adoption.<p>This is the problem right here.  The lack of science education.  A banana modified in a lab and one that is bred through selective breeding are both &quot;GMO&quot;, it&#x27;s just that one is done in a targeted manner and the other relies on random luck in the mutations.<p>If people weren&#x27;t so afraid of science this problem would already be solved.<p>The two main producers refuse to even consider the &quot;GMO&quot; bananas because they are afraid they won&#x27;t sell.  If they would just take up the cause, they could put enough money behind this to solve the problem in a year.