

Banana
The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
Author: Dan Koeppel
Narrator: Paul Woodson
Unabridged: 7 hr 45 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 07/12/2016
Categories: Nonfiction, Business & Economics
Synopsis
But the biggest mystery about the banana today is whether it will survive. A seedless fruit with a unique reproductive system, every banana is a genetic duplicate of the next, and therefore susceptible to the same blights. Today's yellow banana, the Cavendish, is increasingly threatened by such a blight, and there's no cure in sight.
Banana combines a pop-science journey around the globe, a fascinating tale of an iconic American business enterprise, and a look into the alternately tragic and hilarious banana subculture (one does exist)—ultimately taking us to the high-tech labs where new bananas are literally being built in test tubes, in a race to save the world's most beloved fruit.