The world's most popular banana faces extinction but scientists' new creation could help save it
Yelloway One is a new variety of banana that's edible and resistant to some key fungal diseases. It could help save the world ...
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The Banana in Central America: I. Cultivation
By the middle of the nineteenth century it was known that the Gros Michel banana—now the principal variety of commerce—not only would grow but would grow marvellously on the rich soils of the ...
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Promising Breakthrough in Fusarium Wilt Resistance for Banana Crops
The devastating impact of Fusarium wilt was historically seen in the 1950s when the Gros Michel banana variety, once the ...
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The IAEA’s Successful Field Trial: A Promising Breakthrough in Combating Fusarium Wilt in Bananas
The successful field trial marks a significant breakthrough in the fight against Fusarium wilt. By focusing on parental improvement through mutation breeding, the Joint FAO/IAEA Centre is developing a ...
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Bananas have been facing extinction. But maybe not for much longer.
"The Cavendish variety was bred to be a disease-resistant replacement for the Gros Michel," said Popular Science. "This worked for a while, but by the 1990s, there was another outbreak of banana ...
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The Beginning of the End for Bananas?
Our standard supermarket banana, a variety called Cavendish, may be at the brink of disaster. Chosen for its resistance to a fungal pathogen that wiped out its predecessor, the Gros Michel banana, the ...
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The banana apocalypse is coming. Can we stop it this time?
Can we stop it this time? Not our first banana rodeo “The kind of banana we eat today is not the same as the one your grandparents ate. Those old ones, the Gros Michel bananas, are functionally ...