The bananas we know and love have been at risk of extinction from a fungal disease. The good news is that scientists may have found a way to save them, according to a study published in the ...

Bananas are a vital crop globally, but their yields are threatened by various diseases, particularly banana fusarium wilt caused by Fusarium oxysporum. Traditional control methods, including ...

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 ...

Hundreds of millions of dollars in banana exports from Colombia are at risk due to a fungal disease best known as Tropical Race 4 (TR4). First detected in Asia in the 1990s, the Fusarium fungus ...

An curved arrow pointing right. There is a major event affecting the world's banana supply. If the disease succeeds, we could be left without the bananas we grew up with. Follow Tech Insider ...

Scientists have developed bananas that do not go brown and mushy even after being peeled, meaning British banana lovers can look forward to enjoying their favourite fruit. British experts have altered ...

Now, it appears the Cavendish variety is facing a new threat—the very same fungal disease that drove Gros Michels off the market. Cavendish bananas account for about 45 percent of the fruit's global ...

The company is also working on developing bananas resistant to diseases which have already wiped out several varieties. Eyal Maori, Tropic’s chief scientific officer and co-founder, said ...

The multi-million shilling banana industry is being threatened by banana bunchy top, a disease that causes banana leaves to sprout from the top of the plant stunting growth. The viral disease that ...

An curved arrow pointing right. There is a major event affecting the world's banana supply. If the disease succeeds, we could be left without the bananas we grew up with. Produced by Kevin Reilly.

Sound familiar? Although this may sound remarkably like Covid-19, I am actually talking about Tropical Race 4 (TR4), a disease that affects bananas. Also known as Panama Disease, it is a fungus ...