Disease Putting Bananas on Brink of Extinction. Gene Editing Could Save Them.

The world’s crops face a wide array of threats, such as climate change, drought, turbulent weather, and disease. But disease, in particular, has the potential to wipe out a crop’s existence entirely.
Sometimes it’s a new disease, and other times, a plant that was once resistant to a particular disease is no longer capable of defending itself. Today, the banana is a victim of the latter and facing extinction if nothing is done.
The culprit: Panama disease. It’s a fungus &n