Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by sunshinelackof 2568 days ago
> see Panama disease for bananas for an example

Extinction level blights similar to these are not often found in the natural world. They're only a thing because we (humans) eliminated genetic diversity from crops through grafts and clones. If the plants reproduced naturally its likely that a range of genetically diverse children would have been resistant to the fungus.