I recently read an article in the August 2005 issue of Popular Science entitlted "Can this Fruit be Saved?" about the future of the Cavendish banana (the yellow banana everyone is familiar with). I was just curious on the present status of the Gros Michel, which was previously the most widely used banana until a disease wiped out the many of the banana plantations.

Is the Gros Michel banana extinct or did the disease ruin only the commercial value of the banana greatly diminishing its populations on the banana plantations?

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