Instead, the researchers are looking for the traits in other banana varieties that match a Cavendish's taste and hardiness.

Bananas seem like a fruit that has been around forever. While that is almost true, they weren't always considered a fruit or ...

Bananas are a staple in Indian kitchens, and growing them at home from the banana seed is easier than most think. Right from ...

From time to time I have remarked on the problems, nay perils, of cultivating trees in your tropical garden. The topic merits ...

Though most crops are grown in many more places now than they were in the past, vast stands of a single variety, like Russet potatoes or the popular Cavendish banana, are typically ... actually ...

Hassan Yussuf Ibrahim, who trained as an automotive technician, has found a fortune in mixed cropping in a region classified ...

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 ...

It specifically affects Cavendish bananas, the world's most popular type of banana, attacking the roots and causing the plant to rot before dying. Over the last 10 years, the fungus has ...

Steps are now being taken to stem an immediate threat posed by fusarium wilt, a plant disease ... forced this banana variant into becoming replaced by the more resistant Cavendish cultivars.

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 ...