Bananas

[HogF]

I've heard that they will become extinct in about 10 years time. Is this true?

[Harley]

Urban myth see http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/bananas.asp

[incitatus]

however reasonably well founded. the gene pool is very small for bananas and most of the plants are propagated by cuttings within the less than ten commercial varieties. so one good disease and goodnight vienna. see the english elm for details of why small gene pools are bad....