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If Cavendish bananas are sterile and at risk of extinction because they're triploid, yet there are drugs (like colchicine) that induce polyploidy in plants, why can't we just use those drugs to create tetraploid or hexaploid Cavendish bananas that can reproduce?

by /u/Eggman1978 in /r/askscience

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