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

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

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 ...

The stem of banana plants will then rot on the inside, which appears as a discoloration when cut open. Scientists are working on a TR4-resistant Cavendish or a resistant replacement for Cavendish ...

News broke late last week that a fungal disease that kills Cavendish banana plants has been detected in Latin America for the first time. A strain of the Fusarium fungus, which causes so-called ...

Namwa bananas in Hawaii. The banana plant, which falls under the genus Musa, is not a tree but an enormous herb ... (You ...

But the Cavendish is under threat from a fungus that infects the plant. The infection is called Panama Disease (Fusarium wilt) tropical race 4. TR4 infection starts in the banana tree's roots and ...

The cultivar was chosen by the burgeoning banana industry because it produces large, tasty fruit that can be cut from the tree unripe ... one cultivar, the Cavendish, showed signs of resistance ...

The cultivar was chosen by the burgeoning banana industry because it produces large, tasty fruit that can be cut from the tree unripe ... one cultivar, the Cavendish, showed signs of resistance ...