It seems like all other non-asexual earth life forms (humans, animals, etc) suffer negative effects from a limited gene pool, inbreeding, etc. so why doesn’t it affect plants?
In: Biology
There are issues with inbreeding plants. A major issue is that they will all be susceptible to the same diseases. Bananas are all clones, and if there’s a particular disease that develops, it could wipe out all of the bananas in the world. In fact the world used to commonly eat the Gros Michel banana, but it got decimated by a fungus in the 1950s and now we eat Cavendish bananas instead.
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