Comment: Banana industry should not restrict itself to conventional breeding

Panama Disease and Black Sigatoka continue to blight global banana production

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Agricultural scientist Professor James Dale considers why gene editing may be the only sensible option to develop a new banana variety with effective disease resistance

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