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 ...
Banana trees are not actually trees, but, nonetheless, some types deserve more credit for their ability to potentially ...
Panama disease causing wilt in banana plants (left) and brown discolouration ... called tropical race 4 threatens the existence of Cavendish bananas, which today make up half of global banana ...
Namwa bananas in Hawaii. The banana plant, which falls under the genus Musa, is not a tree but an enormous herb ... (You ...