Researchers have developed a new disease-resistant banana called Yelloway One.Yelloway researchers use conventional breeding ...

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

Fernando: So now you can compare, this is Tropical Race 4 in a Cavendish banana. Then this plant looks very healthy. Narrator: One scientist recently developed a line of Cavendish that is ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 cultivar was chosen by the burgeoning banana industry because it produces large, tasty fruit that can be cut from the tree unripe ... William Cavendish, who grew the plant in his greenhouse ...

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

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.