Scientists used CRISPR gene editing to create a banana that stays yellow longer, reducing food waste and extending shelf life ...

The vast worldwide monoculture of genetically identical plants leaves the Cavendish intensely vulnerable to disease outbreaks. Fungal diseases severely devastated the banana industry once in ...

While banana leaf plants are usually low maintenance ... When they don’t get enough light, they’re weaker and more prone to pests, diseases, and stress.” Try keeping your banana plant ...

a disease that causes banana leaves to sprout from the top of the plant stunting growth. The viral disease that spreads epidemically has devastated crop in central and southern Africa. The ...

Akiller disease turns up out of the blue ... true – the call came in from a farm in Colombia. Banana plants were showing wilted yellow leaves and wanted to send him samples.