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Re:The Cavendish banana is under threat from a fungus by toomanybeersies on Sunday October 08, 2017 @12:49AM (#15427017)
It's not just the food supply.

Plantation forestry consists of genetically identical trees grown for miles and miles. Not only would the economic effects of an introduced fungus be bad, but the ecological effects of having entire forests die off could be disastrous.

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Re:The Cavendish banana is under threat from a fungus by adrianN on Sunday October 08, 2017 @05:11AM (#15427529)
As far as biodiversity goes, those "forests" are already pretty much dead.
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Re:The Cavendish banana is under threat from a fungus by toomanybeersies on Sunday October 08, 2017 @03:01PM (#15429427)
Unsurprisingly, pine trees with all the lower branches stripped, laid out in a 5x5 metre grid, are not a great environment for promoting biodiversity.
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