Hmm, Frankenbananas might be as successful as Frankenpotatoes.

Works like this: develop single-gene resistance to the disease and engineer that crop. Sell it until it fails in a few years (single-gene resistance is brittle). Keep developing single-gene resistance traits like this until you run out. Then cry about lost profits.

The blight that caused the potato famine is still with us and slowing beating down the potato growers worlwide. Had they instead worked on multi-gene resistance and multiple-variety plantings, it wouldn't be this bad.

If they gengineer bananas then Dole will be subservient to the interests of Dow / Monsanto / Conagra / ADM. I bet it galls those the bio-chem guys that such a huge food crop is controlled by a small number of organizations that aren't them.

I don't eat bananas much because I saw how Dole was screwing entire countries in the Carribbean when I worked there.