Yelloway One is a new variety of banana that's edible and resistant to some key fungal diseases. It could help save the world ...

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 ...

The fungus strain attacking Cavendish bananas, called Tropical Race 4 (TR4), can also infect other varieties of banana plant. Fusarium TR4 was first detected in the 1990s in Malaysia and Indonesia ...

Just how important humans have been to the banana is best illustrated by the story of the Cavendish variety. The story starts in southern China, in 1826, when Charles Telfair, a plant collector ...

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 ...