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Nicolas Naranja · 12-20-2012, 06:48 PM

I'll go ahead and make a bold prediction that in 20 years we will have precise knowledge of trait loci in the banana genome and we will be able to cleave novel traits from one cultivar and insert them into another cultivar. We know that things like resistance to corm weevils, nematodes, and panama disease are genetic as are resistance to the various leaf diseases. With all the difficulty involved in breeding bananas it may just be easier to take the preferred variety and insert the traits you desire into it. We are probably a good 20 years away from it, but it will happen.

I am 29 and I think that when I am old plants probably won't be getting grafted at all. We will just be designing plants like we were coding a computer program.

It sounds crazy, but 50 years ago the Nobel Prize was being awarded to Watson and Crick for discovering the structure of DNA.

I am awaiting the second green revolution

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Nicolas Naranja Muck bananas Nicolas Naranja 's Photo Gallery Location: Pahokee, FL Find me on the map! Zone: 10 Name: Nick Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 2,217 BananaBucks : 475,360 Feedback: 7 / 100% Said "Thanks" 66 Times Was Thanked 5,665 Times in 1,563 Posts Said "Welcome to Bananas" 7 Times	Re: implants as a means for crossing Musa I'll go ahead and make a bold prediction that in 20 years we will have precise knowledge of trait loci in the banana genome and we will be able to cleave novel traits from one cultivar and insert them into another cultivar. We know that things like resistance to corm weevils, nematodes, and panama disease are genetic as are resistance to the various leaf diseases. With all the difficulty involved in breeding bananas it may just be easier to take the preferred variety and insert the traits you desire into it. We are probably a good 20 years away from it, but it will happen. I am 29 and I think that when I am old plants probably won't be getting grafted at all. We will just be designing plants like we were coding a computer program. It sounds crazy, but 50 years ago the Nobel Prize was being awarded to Watson and Crick for discovering the structure of DNA. I am awaiting the second green revolution __________________ Some people go bananas, I went plantains.