This is horrible news.  I love bananas and eat at least 365&#x2F;year.  I recently got a blender so that I could make smoothies -- to fool my kid into eating both a banana and a glass of milk in the morning :)<p>The article didn&#x27;t make it clear, though, whether every variety of banana is affected, or just the big yellow ones called &quot;Cavendish&quot;.  When I lived in Taiwan (early 80s), there were all sorts of bananas -- Cavendish, little yellow ones, little red ones.  In fact these little reddish-skinned ones with a tart yellow fruit grew in my back yard at the time.  Really tasty.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s time to install a small tropical greenhouse in the back yard and grow one&#x27;s own bananas.  If mainstream bananas become scarce and expensive, this could be like tomatoes -- everyone will want to grow them.  A business opportunity for someone, possibly.