Is it true Cavendish bananas are going extinct (due to infertility)?

Answer 1

Seems by this to be more a fungus problem, not infertility:

"Virtually all bananas traded internationally are of a single variety, the Cavendish, the genetic roots of which lie in India. Three years ago, New Scientist revealed that the world Cavendish crop was threatened by pandemics of diseases such as that caused by the black sigatoka fungus. The main hope for survival of the Cavendish lies in developing new hybrids resistant to the fungus, but this is a difficult and time-consuming task because the seedless modern fruit does not reproduce sexually and has to be bred from cuttings."

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9152-a-future-with-no-bananas.html

Answer 2

They are going extinct because we eat them so much and because it takes years to breed them.

Answer 3

dunno. thanks for the points though...