If you thought that the only type of bananas out there were the ones piled up at your grocery store, think again. There are actually more than 1,000 types of bananas consumed around the world, ranging ...

Invasive plants are highly opportunistic and they don’t need much help from us to thrive, writes gardening columnist.

You don't need a massive plot of land to enjoy the spoils of a great garden. Growing your veggies in containers maximizes ...

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 ...

Floriculture, Ornamental and Plant Biotechnology: Advances and Topical Issues is a network of review articles, research and original papers, and a compendium of opinions and techniques that deals with ...

No matter what color your thumb, you likely already know that all plants need water to reach their full potential—after all, that basic knowledge goes back to introductory middle-school science ...

Researchers have developed a banana plant that is resistant to both fusarium tropical race 4 (TR4) and black sigatoka, two of the most destructive diseases for bananas. Professor of Phytopathology ...

October is a time of garden transition. Summer ends and fall begins. Toward the middle of the month, when the air cools and ...

Its soft plumes of billowing foliage slowly flush to shades of red and crimson ... with this group of plants. But in fact the long-lasting flowers of many kinds of ornamental grasses are one ...