Bananas Are Losing the War on Fungus
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- Опубліковано 17 гру 2015
- The Gros Michel banana lost the battle with fungus in the 1950s, but was replaced by the Cavendish. This time we might not have a new banana to come to the rescue. Could this be the end of bananas?
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Is it weird that I can remember that exact episode back in 2013, but can't remember what I had for breakfast yesterday morning?
+Sean O'Brien nah. its probably because its hey remember this specific video? and not remember that video you watched back in 2013 on this specific date?
+Sean O'Brien No because you learned something and not in breakfast.
+Sean O'Brien
It's not weird at all. Next!
Same thing here!!!!!
Are you saying there was something of interest about you breakfast or just an average one? Because, if I ate my breakfast at a restaurant or hotel, anywhere fancy, I would remember otherwise if it was just a normal day, why the need to remember? That is a similar thing our brain does for us with memory, however maybe if it was an emergency our brain would try its hardest to reconstruct that moment in order to recall it, like if a doctor asked you what your ate during the day if you where in the emergency room or something like that.
Perfect opportunity for genetic modification to do it's thing... If only people weren't so irrationally scared of it
Then I remember we're talking about humans, so...
+Shangori Genetic modification may be able to help with fighting things like this, but then GMO's themselves may have the same susceptibility as the bananas. GMOs aren't likely to have the same amount of genetic diversity as other plants because the seeds are mass produced with specific genes.
+Primalxbeast did you watch the video? ALL bananas are clones of eachother. you cant get less diverse DNA than that.
+Primalxbeast but.... bananas are gentically identical.. have you seen the video? they ARE produced in labs already.... they are sterile... they can not be planted by seeds...
Myrdin90 I was responding to a comment about GMOs in general, so I was talking about GMOs in general. I specifically said that genetic modification could help with problems like the one we're having with bananas but that GMO crops in general also have an unnatural lack of diversity.
Caroline Forest I was responding to the OP's comment about GMOs in general, so I wasn't just talking about bananas. Did you even consider the fact that I was responding to a comment and not commenting directly about the video?
Now I'm dying to know what a Gros Michel banana tastes like
+Claes Henriksson The banana flavored candy and cakes that don't seem to taste like the bananas you eat.
+cfltheman For real?
That explains everything
Claes Henriksson you ever have banana shaped runts from wonka? tastes like those.
I remember having bananas in the early 90s and they tasted way different from the ones now - much like the candies that are flavored after them. I couldn't stop eating them, but now it seems like I get sick of them after a few bites.
What am I supposed to eat after my workout now :/
Eat an apple?
+Jesus Senpai lol my first thought was smoothies! I love those..
+sweetiepie9411 But my favorite smoothie is strawberry and banana :(
+Job Koppenol bananas are used as a post-workout food because it is good at relieving muscle strain and replenishing potassium/magnesium lost during exercise, I don't believe that apples have the same effect lol.
+Tyler Jones Eat pickled cucumbers are faster at relieving muscle strains, so yeah, pickles 4tw!
1-buy an island in the middle of nowhere
2-Make a secret isolated banana farm
3-wait for bananas to go extinct
4-profit
I'm guessing that's the plan.
Harvard wants you NOW
STONKS📈
Canary Islands
K0k997
Rip Bananas. I am eating one as we speak.
+accorden u
+Phill Bill Users that come across my comment
+RAD MAYO oh look, it's you again old friend, how nice. Come stay a while, stay forever!
don't choke 😉
+RAD MAYO
You fool! Don't rip the bananas apart! We need to preserve them!
Noooo! NOT MY DELICIOUS PHALLIC OBJECTS!!!
In a history class in 2072, a teacher grows nostalgic while his students stare quizzically, puzzled over the concept of these so-called "banana fruits".
more banana updates please
9/2/2019 4:35 AM NYC time
bananas are abundant
another Commie plot goes bust
All the bananas we eat are clones of one original banana
keep caven-dishing out the great vids
Thank you. YOU win. Congratulations!(:
Why do you have a banana tank? Wait, why don't I have a banana tank?
Here in Germany, in the supermarkets we have mostly Cavendish, but we also have 2 other kinds of bananas appearing in the markets more and more often.
+kurtilein3 Interesting, how do they taste/look compared to the Cavendish?
iBcPirate
one is about 20%-30% bigger, with a thicker peel, pointier, more sturdy, and tastes less sweet and more fibrous. Sometimes sold with the suggestion to use it for cooking because it is a bit less tasty. Same price.
The other variety is about half the size, really small, a very thin peel, more fragile. But much sweeter compared to the cavendish, more banana taste. More like candy. Also more expensive because it needs more careful handling. Pricy little taste bombs.
The 3 kinds are quite different, in a perfect world you would want to keep the little taste bombs and the Cavendish and forget about the bigger one. But at least there are some alternatives. None have seeds so all 3 reproduce asexually.
+kurtilein3 Sounds like the selection I see here in California. Unless I'm mistaken, the big bananas are called plantains, I think. The tiny bananas are indeed sweeter. It's like the sugar from a bigger banana is more concentrated in a tinier form!
ShinyGoldBacon
Yes, that seems to fit, that sounds familiar. It would still be a tragedy to lose the Cavendish, the little ones are bound to be more expensive because they are so fragile compared to the others.
Hard to imagine that they had a bigger very sweet banana superior to the cavendish and it went away. I grew up with cavendish only, nothing else in my childhood, the other two are a new thing, except that i did enjoy the smaller sweeter ones on a visit to Cyprus long before they appeared on the market in Germany. Cyprus at the time considered them to be so awesome that they had an export ban, and they extensively used these small taste bombs for cooking. I bet some tourists came to Cyprus just for that, sweet baananas excessively used for desserts, sweet bananas boldly combined with salad or in the main dish with meat, a hint of sweet banana in the sauce.
I do not know for sure, but i guess Cyprus lifted its self-imposed export ban.
+ShinyGoldBacon +ShinyGoldBacon Here in Mexico we call the bigger type of banana "macho" (puns...) and the little red ones "morado", which means "purple" or "swollen"(more puns...). The macho variety tastes like raw meat IMO (no kidding) but it's perfect if fried or dryed and then mixed with chilli or sugar or chocolate, etc.; once cooked, it goes with anything (just like chicken meat). The little ones are perfect but they are bit sized :(
Can't we develop sexual bananas?
Ugh, that came out wrong...
+Do You Feel It? Your profile pic and name fit perfectly with that comment xD
+Lucho-Core But then they will have seeds....
+Lucho-Core The seeds are too big.
You mean natural bananas as grown on the forest of New Guinea? No thanks, natural banana seeds are... big... uh, come on! Is everything about these fruits so easily sexual to us humans!?
I prefer bananas with big seeds rather than no bananas at all.
That is awesome, but also very sad. Here in Brazil we don't have only the Cavendish-like (here called Nanica) but actually at least three other types that are not so famous. So, while the best banana may go away soon, we will still have some bananas, for a while.
Argh! Not my bananas!
I really hope we can bring back the Gros Michel. They sound super tasty. They still grow in South America I think.
I'm watching this three years later and I feel like I need an update on this cuz I still see bananas around
Bruh there is more then 1 species of banana
Chom choms are losing the war on fungus? Nooooo!
2 sad 4 me no banana jokes anymore in thay foeture
+Baska K
+Baska they'll be around but only those that were around will get them :P
I liked bananas.
But that was before the plague hit.
+Zurt D:
+puskajussi37 The bananas lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when TR4 attacked. Only the genetic modifying scientists can stop it, but when the bananas needed them the most, they vanished. 100 years past, and my brother and I discovered the genetic modifying scientists. It was too late.
Thanks for making an update on this! I remember your episode and also reading several articles about the fungal issue written in like... 2005 saying we'd run out of bananas in 10 years. So far, we hadn't and every time I've tried to look for more information about bananas I'd just find those same 10 year old articles again.
All we need is a GM Banana resistant to the fungi, then we can keep our yellow friends :)
But how will Donkey Kong survive without bananas???!?
Great video. Thanks a bunch!
Ha ha.
Its nice to see follow up videos like this.
"This is bananas." Say this while you still can. RIP strange phallic fruits. Ironically, having no sex led to your demise.
what are we going to use for scale?
+siraj never been, imgur lol
Enjoyed your way of presentation
Store them in ur freezerss guyssss.... Dem frozen bananas gonna make you filthy rich one fine day
I ate a banana while watching this. It was good.
No way bro I was eating one too! Maybe we are banana brothers
Binny Singh How was your banana?
+Ranbir Dhillon dearest banana brother, my banana was delicious, how was your banana?
@@Binny0524 that just feels awkward to read...
Nothing good ole genetic engineering can't fix. In fact, with the help of genetic engineering we could bring back the Gros Michel.
+Giovanni Foulmouth They're actually still around, just in very limited quantities because of the fungus. I'd love to get my hands on some so I could try them. But we could make a banana similar to it.
ty fer the update
NOOO!! MY SMOOTHIES!! SMOOTHIES ARE NOTHING WITH OUT A BANANER!!!
Just like the Irish Potato Famine... *sigh*. You think we'd learn our lesson.
If history has taught us anything it is that humans do not learn.
+phyrath5 Double Negative.
+DarkPrinceCobra I only see one negative.
You know what risk is, right? Knowing from history that bananas could go extinct doesn't mean we shouldn't produce them. It's still profitable.
+The Stry Show I agree with you, mono cropping is very risky, but unlike other crops, where hundreds of cultivars exist. Bananas are really limited, so its not like farmers all chose to just pick this one variety over dozens of others that are available simply because there are not dozens of other varieties.
Many resistant varieties to this fungus are seedy , as in big hard nasty seeds in the banana itself. others produce little tiny bananas that have little potential commercially because they either do not transport well, and/or have very thin skin.
Work is being done now in Honduras ( hope this project is still going ) they are trying to breed hybrids that are resistant, its very difficult process, yes the Cavindish can produce a seed, like one in a zillion fruit. and the chance that this seed has all the desired traits is slim.
IT WAS WEEZYWAITER!
+Mew [Jacob/PwnAzn] No it was probably just a clone. ;)
+Shidan cameo clone...
+Biggyinn 1993 Indeed, you can tell it's Cameo Clone because of how he is making a cameo appearance without the real Weezy Waiter..
+ObadiahtheSlim :p
Since the video SciShow released in 2013, I've been enjoying the hell out of bananas when I can. I had no faith that we'd actually learn our lessons from the past and prevent such a fate.
the original sci show episode on bananas was one of the first sci shows i watched ^^
The End is near
Someone tell Free Lee the Banana Girl,
Maybe than she'll get off of her high horse about eating all those bananas everyday
hahahhaha bye bye freelala ?
Tell The Amazing Atheist
Her and Durianrider will just switch to mangos lol
+Isaac Chay LOL!!!!!!! Right? It's so excessive to eat that many bananas....
+sweetiepie9411
it's actually really bad for you to eat more than one or two bananas a day. Just eat one a day and you get the benefits, too many and you'll end up feeling sick.
Great video
Maybe there is still a 1950s banana on some desolate island ready for its comeback.
At least Mario Kart tracks will become safer.
Banana tank is the name I give to my butt.
+elizabeth noir ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) oh yeah?
Good thing I am all prepared for the bananapocalypse. I have a vault with thousands of bananas kept deep underground in China. You could search for decades and not find it. I built it several years ago and am ready to go there whenever the bananapocalypse occurs
I swear if this happens again I will go bananas
4:20 Blaze it
+Kevin Karro ayy lmao
I don't get it.
+VoidX www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=420+blaze+it
+Fallout Ugglan (Dresius) ayy lmao
Julia Mestre no lol I get that, but what does it have to do with the video?
BANANAS NOOO
1:16 That's not true,
Gros Michel didn't extinct, it just commercially extinct.
You can still find it in some places.
I'm allergic to bananas anyways... so goodbye bananas.
That's like saying you can't read so you want books burned so others can't enjoy them.
+Big Phat Walrus Not really. Saying goodbye to something you don't care partake in doesn't mean you think nobody else should.
For example, will I care when game consoles go bye bye? Not in the slightest. Doesn't mean I think no one should be able to play them. I honestly don't see the point - if you're going to be stuck in one place your PC makes most sense to me, thus I only play PC and handheld games.
BUT... If there is enough demand for someone to make them and someone does so, I simply _do not care either way_.
For all you know, the OP would love to eat a banana but has simply accepted they can't and as such does not care if they go away because it doesn't directly affect their life whether it does or not.
Instead, you're going the standard internet idiot route of making it a false dichotomy. There is liking, there is not caring, and there is disliking with a whole spectrum in between each point. It's not an either or thing.
It's like when some atheists try to say babies and rocks are atheists as if it's one or the other when there is a "does not know anything about any religions and thus doesn't believe or disbelieve them because they can't believe or disbelieve something they have no concept of" option. There is no spectrum between these three points, you either disbelieve (atheist), aren't aware of the concept (neither), or believe (theist), but it's still not an either or as those idiots try to make it.
For the love or Arceus, drop the "with us or against us" nonsense.
+Tessa Bain holy shit shots fired. That was amazing.
+Big Phat Walrus I actually really do like bananas, but I can't have them. If they go extinct there's nothing I can really do about it and it doesn't affect me either way. I hope they are saved for everyone else's sake.
Stop growing them in dirt, problem solved. NEXT!
+Evirthewarrior inb4 air born fungus become a thing
+Evirthewarrior Hydroponics?
+xt hydra Yeah, just imagine if fungi evolved to have, I dunno, "spores" that could travel through the air... mmh...
+Jev Laa Far out, man.
+Evirthewarrior
That's... actually not a bad idea. Expensive, maybe, but it can be used to maintain a small quarantined crop until the problem is solved.
Okay but that wheezy waiter reference at the beginning was spectacular!
how nostalgic to hear you all prattling on about bananas again... the 2013 banana video was probably the first sci show vid I ever watched...i liked it so much i subscribed and then tried to write a whole paper about it for school... AND NOW ITS THE END OF BANNA TIMES! CURSES! WE WERE WARNED! WHY DIDNT WE LISTEN!?
Thank you! Keep us updated, Honey.
I have an idea- Hydroponics. No need of soil, and if a patch is infected, just replace that!
Never fear. Where I live there are three banana trees growing in the open air. It will be the last bastion of bananas.
This is so interesting!
Of all the science things that I thought would scare me, I did not expect one of them to be about bananas
and 3 +years later..
I just had 30 bananas delivered to me from AMAZON FRESH. YUMMYLICIOUS
I used to love bananas. I ate them so frequently but now I don't really like them. I still don't want them to go extinct.
Life goes on
I live in Bangalore and have a choice of half a dozen varieties each delicious. And NO Cavendish. in 1971 when I visited the Banana Nursery (not a major research station) in Peringamala in Kerala
I recall that they had a few hundred varieties. Even today we have more than 50 varieties grown commercially including dwarf Cavendish. If we are sensible there is a great future for bananas and plantains which hold a pride of place in Indian tradition from ancient times
A perfect example of us killing what we love.
Life will be strange without bananas
Hank is going to go fill up his banana tank, everybody.
I'm sure the worlds leading producers of bananas have already had their eye on the matter and have pumped 10s if not 100s of millions into figuring something out. Because if they don't cereal won't ever be the same.
Goodbye bananas everywhere, you strange phallic fruit, you shall be missed.
I'm going to cry
Damn... This means that the banana has been at a superior form since its beginning
Idk... 5 years later, they are still here
I am getting way more emotional about this than I should...
Here we go. It got to southamerica... Is there gonna be an update-video on that, whether scientists/farmers could find a new banana?
really.....
wow......just wow
Omg, I knew that parthenogenesis existed, but I didn't know bananas were repoduced with it!
I've decided to have a banana as I haven't had one in a long time, and I want to remember the taste just in case
"I gotta go fill up my banana tank." - Hank Green
Well, they’re still around in 2018 so hopefully they’ll stick around for awhile longer
Did you know that of the commonly-known potassium-rich foods, cavendish bananas have the least amount of potassium. Potatoes have a lot as do prunes.
"I gotta go fill up my banana tank."
Yeah, bananas aren't really something you can stockpile. They must have one of the shortest shelf lives of any food in existence.
im crying now
Someone tell the muffin man, that he will no longer be making banana muffins.
simple answer develop multiple new banana's and have them farmed in different areas so when a problem emerges you can just start farming a different type
rest in banana
My favorite fruit. Without bananas, life will be unbearable.
if there is no more bananas in the world, all hope will be lost.
Well bananas!
I wish I could go back in time and eat one of those Gros Michel bananas.
Fun fact: the artificial banana flavor used in candy such as runts is the flavor of the Gros Michel.
Could building a giant "plant pot" banana farm be some way of a fix for places that have not been tainted?
im hyped for a gros mitchel V2
sad but awesome video
Can we not use another region's soil. I ask because, I was growing a grapefruit tree in Canadian soil at home. It actually was prospering very well in it's foreign dirt. I just had to bring it in during winter and make sure it had a South facing window. The only reason I don't have it anymore was the downfall of 2009. Broke my heart to dispose of it.
I'm old enough to remember what bananas used to taste like. They were much tastier than now.
Dude, I seriously love bananas. This makes me sad.
Bodybuilders around the world rejoice! A moment of silence for our fallen friend :(
This video was a-peel-ing
My science teacher is surprised by my knowlage of bananas and I told her about this UA-cam channel. When I get back to school I will update her on the bad banana news.
This is insane to think a world with no bananas!!! It's too much for me to handle
*hugs banana*
It's okay, we still have another type of banana.
Those poor bananas! I'm devastated. D:
What happens when you burn the dirt? Centuries of people have been burning their soil after and before a new batch of crop, it "refreshes" and sanitises soil for a new batch of crops. No? I don't know I just really love cavendish bananas please don't go.