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Climate change is making it harder to grow fruit and vegetables

5 February 2019

Fruit and vegetable growers have been hit hard by extreme weather in recent years, and there’s worse to come as the planet hots up
Cavendish bananas

Virus lurking inside banana genome has been destroyed with CRISPR

31 January 2019

A virus that inserts itself into the genome of a type of banana plagues plantations in Africa, but CRISPR gene editing can be used to eliminate the viral DNA

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