It's surprising how important bananas are to humanity, yet we have done relatively little to preserve many of these cultivars. Hundreds of organizations in the US (and probably thousands worldwide) are focused on saving rare and endangered animals with great success, but plants have generally been placed on the back burner... We've literally only had one single major successful organization, FHIA, work on improving bananas.
Thank you Gabe for taking action and doing the heavy lifting for us! Preserving the landrace variants is the first step to long term preservation of bananas. Hopefully one day we'll see these otherwise unknown varieties become easily available to farmers and especially home growers throughout the world
Genetic diversity is key to long term survival....