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

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 ...

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

The banana plant, which falls under the genus Musa ... in the freezer to make banana bread someday. (You won’t.) Its name, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

showed signs of resistance that could save the banana industry. Named after the 7th Duke of Devonshire, William Cavendish, who grew the plant in his greenhouse in Chatsworth House (there is still ...

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 ...

showed signs of resistance that could save the banana industry. Named after the 7th Duke of Devonshire, William Cavendish, who grew the plant in his greenhouse in Chatsworth House (there is still ...