Though they share a similar look, bananas and plantains have vastly different flavors, chemical compositions, and culinary ...

Artificial banana flavoring can be a bit of a divisive topic. One thing we can all agree on is that banana flavoring doesn't ...

Panama Disease is a fungal infection, also known as Fusarium oxysporum, that emerged in the 1990s and affects the main variety of banana eaten globally, the Cavendish banana. Scientists have now ...

The banana you might have had with your breakfast today is a variety called the Cavendish banana, while the one that was in ...

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 ...

The Cavendish, the most widely exported banana and probably the variety in your kitchen, is in trouble. Deadly fungal diseases are attacking the plants, threatening the fruit with extinction.

News broke late last week that a fungal disease that kills Cavendish banana plants has been detected in Latin America for the first time. A strain of the Fusarium fungus, which causes so-called ...

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 ...

Each year, humans worldwide eat over 100 billion bananas, most of which are a type called the Cavendish. But perhaps not for long. A fungal disease threatens to wipe Cavendish bananas off the face ...

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 ...