killing off plants in Honduras, Suriname, and Costa Rica. Overall, Panama disease, Race 1, the first variant of the fungus, caused the loss of thousands of acres of banana plantations. Sign up for ...

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 ...

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 ...