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The passage discusses the history of banana cultivation and the threat posed by Panama disease. It notes that the Gros Michel banana, which dominated plantations in Central America in the 1950s, was driven to extinction by the fungus Fusarium oxysporum. Farmers then switched to cultivating the Cavendish banana, which was resistant to the original strain of the fungus. However, the Cavendish is now threatened by a new strain of the fungus. While genetically modifying the Cavendish may provide a temporary sol

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