The bananas in your supermarket and that you eat for breakfast are facing functional extinction due to the disease Fusarium wilt of banana (FWB), caused by a fungal pathogen called Fusarium oxysporum ...

The Switzerland-headquartered company says it 'represents a breakthrough in sustainable banana production.' There's a brand-new banana on the block that promises to be at least partially resistant to ...

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The previous CRP related to mutation breeding in banana, CRP 22005, focused on developing efficient screening techniques to identify mutants with disease resistance. Screening protocols developed from ...