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   ago      amount      common      extinct      first      ground      growers      it      main      millions      modified      parts      plants      quickly      them      time      trouble      variety      water      wind  
The world's most banana, the Cavendish, could become . A fungus called TP4 is killing of banana . The fungus blocks the banana plant from taking in , so it dies. Scientists found TP4 in Malaysia in 1990. It spread to other of Asia. Then it went to Australia and Africa. TP4 is carried by the , water, cars and people's feet. A small of TP4 spreads across large areas very quickly.

Before the Cavendish banana, we ate a called the Gros Michel. Fifty years , it was the world's banana. By 1965, a fungus called Panama Disease had killed . Banana changed to the Cavendish banana. Now the Cavendish is in . TP4 stays in the for a long , so new plants cannot grow. One answer is to grow genetically (GM) bananas. Diseases like TP4 cannot kill .

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