Bananas are everywhere — school cafeterias, $9 smoothies, perhaps even rotting on your kitchen counter. They’re a cheap ...

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

The friend said they weren’t trees, that she could dig them up for winter ... in the freezer to make banana bread someday.

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 ...

Specifically, it's affecting the Cavendish bananas, the world's most popular type of banana, attacking its roots and causing the plant to rot and die. Without intervention, we really are facing a ...

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 ...

This affliction, Panama disease, decimated the world’s former most popular banana, the Gros Michel. Now a strain of the disease called tropical race 4 threatens the existence of Cavendish ...

The banana might be the most artificial fruit in the world. The domestic banana that we eat is an asexual clone, one that results from the sedate, artificial act of vegetative propagation.

Once a plantation is infected, it kills all the banana trees and experts say it is extremely hard to get rid of. The fungus has also mutated to threaten the Cavendish, the world's favourite banana ...

The second edition of the Sommo Festival isn't running back-to-back with the Cavendish Beach Music Festival this year, giving area businesses a chance to stay open a bit longer to capitalize on ...

Sep. 24, 2024 — The Eiffinger's tree frog found in Japan has a unique biological adaptation: its tadpoles do not defecate during their early developmental stages to reduce the risk of ...

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