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

News broke late last week that a fungal disease that kills Cavendish banana plants has been detected in Latin America for the first time. A strain of the Fusarium fungus, which causes so-called ...

And the Cavendish is vulnerable to Tropical Race 4, or Panama disease, a fungus that's now ravaging banana farms across the globe. Fernando: So now you can compare, this is Tropical Race 4 in a ...

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Although wild bananas do pollinate their flowers, their fruit is packed ... the fruits of these plants sterile. In fact, Cavendish – the banana variety most of us eat today that accounts ...

In late September, Chiquita, in partnership with KeyGene, MusaRadix, and Wageningen University and Research (WUR), announced ...

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

But monoculture crops are incredibly susceptible to disease. What makes the story of the banana even more dire is that the Cavendish banana is what's known as a triploid - meaning it's sterile.

By the 1960s, one cultivar, the Cavendish, showed signs of resistance that could save the banana industry. Named after the 7th Duke of Devonshire, William Cavendish, who grew the plant in his ...

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Each year, humans worldwide eat over 100 billion bananas, most of which are a type called the Cavendish. But perhaps not for long. A fungal disease threatens to wipe Cavendish bananas off the face ...

The Cavendish, the most widely exported banana and probably the variety in ... The Yelloway One is on track to flower and produce bananas, but it's not yet ready to arrive in grocery stores.