The fungus that devastates the Cavendish banana has now arrived in Latin America
> 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 "GMO", it's just that one is done in a targeted manner and the other relies on random luck in the mutations.<p>If people weren't so afraid of science this problem would already be solved.<p>The two main producers refuse to even consider the "GMO" bananas because they are afraid they won't sell.  If they would just take up the cause, they could put enough money behind this to solve the problem in a year.