A deadly fungus is threatening to destroy most of the world's bananas. Fungicides and other chemicals can't kill it, so ...

Ensuring history doesn't repeat itself a third time The Cavendish only became the world's most widely eaten banana in the ...

Berkeley postdoctoral fellow and researcher Vayu Hill-Maini researched a fungi that converts food waste into nutritious — and ...

More often, though, they’re a cosmetic problem, as the toenail may become thick, discolored, or cracked. You can pick up a toenail fungus from your environment. It often gets in through small cracks ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

While incredibly terrifying on paper, it sounds like the primary victims of this fungus aren't human. Keep reading to find out who is at risk of being infected by the Gibellula fungus and what ...

Considered to be the most destructive disease for these crops in modern times, the latest tropical race 4 (TR4) strain is caused by the soil-borne fungus ... forced this banana variant into ...

In there, we see hanging garbage bags covered in fungus--white mushrooms covered in glistening, viscous, crimson fluid. It looks dangerous, like the kind of thing you'd expect to find in a movie ...