Bananas Get Pepper Power

Bananas are one of the most important sustenance crops in the world; people eat more bananas than any other fresh fruits. However, the amount of bananas that can be growing is less than other fruit, because bananas are sterile, so there is no way to improve the bananas through breeding. In another way, bananas already have less number being produced, and there are still a type of disease called Banana Xanthomonas Wilt (BXW) that cause a big number of bananas loss. But now there is a way to get this disease away from the bananas, which is to put the green pepper genes in the bananas to make a new product. Because the green pepper genes can kill plant cells that come into contact with the BXW bacteria, so cell death prevents the disease from spreading.

This article is related to biology because this article has indicates about disease that will damage bananas which will bring an absolute loss to the farmers once this disease appear on the banana fields. And research finds out if the transgenic banana doesn’t cause any harmful to human body then the new type of banana will be release.

We should care about this information because banana is one of the most important fruit in the world, in the United States; people eating average about 26 pounds per person each year. And with this new technique, we will have more bananas to eat, because the amount of bananas will increase once the transgenic banana come out.

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