In the early 20th century, however, the Gros Michel banana was brought to its knees by a fungus: Fusarium oxysporum.

This actually happened in the 1950s with a type of banana known as the Gros Michel (often known as Big Mike). The song, "Yes! We Have No Bananas," is said to have been inspired by a shortage of ...

The bananas you enjoy in the morning, with your cereal, smoothies, with a scoop of peanut butter, in your banana bread, or just on their own, are facing extinction due to a fungal disease known as ...

found that the dominant variety of fusarium wilt isn't exactly the same strain as the one that endangered Gros Michel bananas, which were once the banana of choice in grocery stores across the world.

The banana plant, which falls under the genus Musa ... just as a fungus annihilated its predecessor, the Gros Michel, in the ...

The banana equivalent to Covid-19 is spreading to new countries, forcing the industry to change how the world’s most widely eaten fruit is farmed and even how it could taste. Akiller disease ...

Eventually, the tree dies as a result. What's happening to Cavendish bananas has happened before to another popular banana variety called Gros Michel. Gros Michel was the "main export banana in ...

It had, after all, happened before: The Gros Michel banana was all but wiped out by a fungal outbreak in the 1950s and '60s. Bebber and other experts hope that by raising prices now, banana ...

Akiller disease turns up out of the blue. It moves by “stealth transmission”, spreading before symptoms even show. Once it takes hold, it is already too late to stop it – there is no cure.