Scientists? Its easy, have diversity not just 1 kind.
Did you forget to read the article?
What you call the easy bit is actually the hard bit.
This is a stated goal of the research, according to the article.
they figured out the concept of diversity, the peasants rejoice!
Markets love fragility, until they shatter.
Easy solution; there’s hundreds of varieties, find one which works for the local climate and grow that 🤷♂️
Did you forget to read the article?
Iirc, the same fungus that decimated the Big Mike plantations mutated into the one that’s taking out the Cavendish. (Big Mike is still out there, btw, but only in limited areas that didn’t get infected with the blight, and in limited numbers. You know how in all the old movies, people slipped on banana peels? Those were Big Mike; supposedly the peels actually were a hazard, though perhaps not to the extent Bugs Bunny might imply.)
