James Dale is a plant scientist at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. His first job out of grad school was working on a banana disease called Buncheetop. The bananas that we eat are primarily sterile because they don't have seeds. So the idea of being able to genetically modify them seemed attractive.
The banana, once a luxury good, rose to become America’s favorite fruit. Now a deadly fungus threatens to wipe it out. Can it be saved?