With their large, lush leaves, banana trees bring a tropical vibe to any backyard. But, if you want to enjoy their dramatic ...

Keeping banana plants happy when the weather outside is frightful looks a little different to overwintering lavender and ...

Banana plants, Musa spp., are herbaceous perennials native to tropical and subtropical rainforests. Increasingly popular, ...

Signage depicting single bananas as "sad" makes it more likely people will buy them, according to a new study.

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 ...

Triangle companies are leveraging advanced tools to address pressing global agricultural issues, from crop resilience to ...

Ritter points to a common propagation practice as one of the biggest threats—the use of corms (the "baby" banana plants that grow at the base of banana trees) to sow new plots. Farmers need to ...

Cuban farmer Leonardo Abreu clambered over fallen banana plants in a field beside his home, taking stock of the wreckage two ...

Each plant was a clone of roughly the same size and shape, produced from suckers – lateral shoots that develop from the rootstalk – making it easy to mass produce. It means each banana plant ...

An curved arrow pointing right. One in four women in India don't have the supplies they need for their period. Saathi Pads is turning farm waste into biodegradable pads that could prevent the ...