Nothing About Bananas Is Normal... Here's Why

The Cavendish banana is the world's most traded fruit — and every single one is a genetic clone. This film explains how a giant sterile herb with a false stem called a pseudostem came to make up 47% of global production and 99% of exports, why the Gros Michel collapsed from Panama disease, and how the TR4 fungus now threatens the same fate. It follows the fight to save it with gene-edited QCAV4, FHIA hybrids and new varieties for Africa's matoke mats.