Ioannis Stergiopoulos, Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis; André Drenth, Professor of Agriculture and Food Sciences, The University of Queensland and Gert Kema, Special Professor of Phytopathology, Wageningen University wrote an article for ‘The conversation’, the communication platform with ‘Academic rigour & journalistic flair’. With the article, Ioannis, André and Gert try to answer the question whether science can help the endangered Cavendish banana to survive. The piece attracted very much interest of news media, it even reached the homepage of CNN.
Check the CNN page here:
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/25/health/banana-extinction/index.html
You can read the entire article here on The Conversation:
https://theconversation.com/with-the-familiar-cavendish-banana-in-danger-can-science-help-it-survive-64206
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