The banana you know and love — specifically, the Cavendish cultivar — faces a deadly threat. Fungal diseases are spreading ...

Scientists have successfully engineered Yelloway One, a banana plant resistant to two of the most destructive diseases.

The plant is resistant to TR4 ... particularly to the widely exported Cavendish banana. The breakthrough was achieved through a collaboration between Chiquita, KeyGene, MusaRadix, and Wageningen ...

Researchers have developed a banana plant that is resistant to both Fusarium Tropical Race 4 (TR4) and Black Sigatoka, two of ...

The Cavendish now accounts for almost half of all bananas produced ... “Sometimes it’s a road trip, and I have my head out ...

The soft, yellow flesh of the edible varieties is the result of a mutation many thousands of years ago that rendered the fruits of these plants sterile. In fact, Cavendish – the banana variety ...

Banana trees are not actually trees, but, nonetheless, some types deserve more credit for their ability to potentially ...

DA-Davao is creating a laboratory to produce Trichoderma fungi, a biocontrol agent for Fusarium wilt in banana plants. The ...

If your homemade fruit salads typically contain the run-of-the-mill Cavendish bananas you find at the store, you've been ...

Chiquita, in partnership with KeyGene, MusaRadix, and Wageningen University and Research (WUR), is proud to announce the ...

Chiquita, in partnership with KeyGene, MusaRadix and Wageningen University and Research (WUR) is proud to announce the ...