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

The devastating impact of Fusarium wilt was historically seen in the 1950s when the Gros Michel banana variety, once the ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

The banana equivalent to Covid-19 is spreading to new countries, forcing the industry to change how the world’s most widely eaten fruit is farmed and even how it could taste. Akiller disease ...

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 ...

The Panama disease, which ravaged plantations in the mid-20th century, nearly wiped out the Gros Michel banana, a global favourite. Farmers subsequently shifted to the Cavendish, which now ...