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 ...

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Following is a transcription of the video: Narrator: The world's most popular banana may be on the verge of extinction. Fernando: Similar to humans, bananas are also facing a pandemic. Narrator ...

Ritter points to a common propagation practice as one of the biggest threats – the use of corms (the “baby” banana plants that grow at the base of banana trees) to sow new plots. Farmers ...

Three mutant banana varieties are worth mentioning here: Novaria in Malaysia (early flowering), Klue Hom Thong KU1 in Thailand (bunch size and cylindrical shape), and Albeely in Sudan (out-yielding ...