In the early 20th century, banana plantations were exporting the fruit to places all over the world. In the late 1800s, Panama disease showed up, spreading far and wide. The fungus causes the ...

Also known as Panama Disease, it is a fungus that has ... friendly way and to eat a more diverse range of fruit. “Maybe we eat fewer bananas and we pay more for them,” she admits.

have been grown in field trials in the Northern Territory for over six years and have proven highly resistant to Panama Disease TR4. The fruit is a Cavendish Grand Nain banana that has been ...

The banana is the world’s most popular fruit crop, with over 100 ... during the 1950s and ‘60’s. A fungal disease called Fusarium wilt or Panama disease nearly wiped out the Gros Michel ...

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 ...

Cavendish bananas account for about 45 percent of the fruit's global crop, with an annual export value ... Gros Michel banana after a deadly fungal infection, known as Panama disease (Fusarium ...

Scientists at Tropic in Norwich Research Park have developed a banana that doesn't go brown for 24 hours after being opened.

THE displacement of the Philippines by Vietnam as the top banana supplier to China reflects the Philippine banana industry’s declining competitiveness, as well as weak Chinese demand and the impact of ...

Also known as Panama Disease, it is a fungus that has ... friendly way and to eat a more diverse range of fruit. “Maybe we eat fewer bananas and we pay more for them,” she admits.