A staple of breakfasts and desserts, the Cavendish banana is now facing an unprecedented threat. A fearsome fungus, Panama disease, tropical race 4 (TR4), is endangering this variety, which dominates ...

Cavendish bananas are under threat from a fungus that has wiped out other varieties. The island of Tenerife may have the ...

Narrator: Ninety-nine percent of bananas exported to developed countries are just one group called the Cavendish. And the Cavendish is vulnerable to Tropical Race 4, or Panama disease, a fungus ...

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

Bananas originated in India over 5000 years ago as 'kadali phalam' and spread globally through Alexander the Great’s ...

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 ...

Virtually all the bananas sold across the Western world belong to the so-called Cavendish subgroup of the species and are genetically nearly identical. These bananas are sterile and dependent on ...

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 ...

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 ...