We love bananas, but without serious technical efforts, the crop faces collapse worldwide. James Woodford enjoys a passionate plea Banana plantations provide the fruit loved around the world and to how much we want to protect what is one of the world’s favourite fruits. However, it now seems that Cavendish bananas – seedless, clonal and therefore unable to breed themselves out of danger – can no longer outrun the TR4 strain of fungal disease without a serious scientific leg-up. “Cavendish doomsday is coming,” writes Dale. …