The new hybrid is called Yelloway One, and Gert Kema, a professor at Wageningen University, views it as a major breakthrough ...
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 ...
Chiquita, in partnership with KeyGene, MusaRadix and Wageningen University and Research (WUR) is proud to announce the introduction of Yelloway One, a revolutionary banana hybrid resistant to Tropical ...
The soils were infested and could not be replanted with banana trees. So, a new banana type called the Cavendish was developed. It was resistant to Panama disease. The transition to the Cavendish was ...
Researchers have developed a banana plant that is resistant to both fusarium ... particularly to the widely exported Cavendish banana. The breakthrough was achieved through a collaboration between ...
The banana plant, which falls under the genus Musa ... in the freezer to make banana bread someday. (You won’t.) Its name, ...
Angela Wylie But Dale was convinced genetic modification was the only way to save the banana. As he hunted for a way to make the Cavendish resistant to Panama disease, an American plant ...
Banana trees are not actually trees, but, nonetheless, some types deserve more credit for their ability to potentially ...
This image shows leaf yellowing on a Cavendish banana plant in northern Mozambique. The plant was infected by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense tropical race 4 (TR4), a soil-borne fungus ...