Banana breeders — and others with an interest — are meeting in Bogor to discuss, er, banana breeding under the auspices, I believe, of Musanet and the Global Crop Diversity Trust. ((Can I find a link to the meeting? Can I heck.))
Our very own Luigi Guarino is there for his day job, tweeting up a storm at #musanet. They’re lucky to have him. And so are we. One fascinating idea already from Jim Lorenzen of IITA: resynthesize the banana. How cool would that be? ((Lorenzen doesn’t mention resynthesis in this recent blog post about breeding superior cooking bananas.))
LATER: This is not a new idea, as this extract on CIRAD’s work from a 2008 book shows.