Erste neue kommerzielle Banane seit 75 Jahren, „Die Banane, die nicht bräunt“, steht auf der Top-Erfindungsliste der Zeit und ist nächstes Jahr in Supermärkten erhältlich

Agronomics backed [Tropic Biosciences](https://www.research-tree.com/newsfeed/article/agronomics-limited-investee-company-update-tropic-biosciences-1441481) has made it onto [TIME’s Best Inventions of 2025](https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/) list for developing the world’s first non-browning banana and the first new commercial banana variety in over 75 years. Available on shelves next year.

But the real breakthrough is that this gene-edited banana is part of Tropic’s wider effort to create crops resistant to devastating plant diseases. Bananas worldwide are currently threatened by a fungal blight (Panama Disease TR4) that’s wiping out plantations and endangering the global supply of the Cavendish, the single variety that makes up almost all exported bananas.

As most bananas are one of only four variants after a fifth already died out, the fruit is at extreme risk of an extinction event. Climate change is also putting growing regions at massive risk prompting further gene-editing by the company.

TIME calls Tropic’s invention “a potential lifeline for a crop on the brink,” and notes that the same technology could soon protect coffee and rice from similar diseases.