Bananas & More

Researchers led by KeyGene (The Netherlands) have developed a banana plant that is resistant to both Fusarium Tropical Race 4 (TR4) and Blac...

Kapi Kapi Growers , a Costa Rican grower-shipper of sustainably grown pineapples and bananas, introduces a new product to its growing portf...

It is believed that humans domesticated bananas for the first time 7,000 years ago on the island of New Guinea. However, the history of bana...

De banaan is in gevaar en dat gevaar heeft hij voor een deel aan zichzelf te wijten, zo blijkt uit het boek 'De banaan'. We begin...

Radioactive bananas. That doesn't sound good, doesn't it? What does this mean? Should we be afraid of glow-in-the-dark bananas? We...

A probably somewhat unexpected use of bananas is that of fibers. Abaca (Musa textilis) is a species of banana that is native the Philipp...

A team at the University of Queensland is taking the next step in their search for a banana that has resistance against Panama disease. Led ...

According to a scientific study bananas can refuel your body just as effectively as an energy drink [1] . In the study, 14 male athletes ...

A fungus that has wreaked havoc on banana plantations in the Eastern Hemisphere has, despite years of preventative efforts, arrived in the A...

Blue Java bananas are a hybrid between Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana , which means that botanists should tell you that the accepted sc...

Uganda is a tropical country with over 30 million inhabitants, 80% of them are living in rural areas. Bananas are a staple food for the loca...

The causal agent of black leaf streak (also known as black Sigatoka) in bananas was a fungus called Mycosphaerella fijiensis. The species ha...

Although a number of recent studies suggest that migration flows associated with the impact of climate change on agriculture are affecting b...

SunButter is a wholesome and delicious sunflower butter. Made from US grown and roasted sunflower seeds and simple ingredients, SunButter ...

Bananas contain a protein called lectin, which is also found in many of the 'night shade' foods, such as potato, tomato and chilipep...

The life cycle of a banana is a colourful one: it starts with a deep green, then changes to a delicious yellow and ends (if it’s not eaten b...

Irish fruit distributor Fyffes has agreed to be bought by Japan's Sumitomo in a €751m deal. Fyffes produces, ships, ripens and distrib...

Musa sapientus banadine or bananadine is a fictional psychoactive substance which is supposedly extracted from banana peels. A hoax recipe f...

Banana production is threatened by various fungi. One of them, Pseudocercospora fijiensis , causes the feared black Sigatoka disease. The fu...

An Australian family business has gone bananas after they accidentally discovered a new super food. For many years Rob Watkins and his fam...

Researchers recently published a study, which demonstrates new insights on how bananas make and store carotenoides [1] . Carotenoids which a...

[Source: Anne Vézina ] 'Where our bananas come from' (1962) was published in the 'New Scientist magazine'. In it, Norman S...

The de facto division of the island in 1974 left the Turkish Cypriot community in the north in possession of agricultural resources that pro...

Van Rees Tea, part of Acomo , has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and thereby declared their intentions to support the Malawi Tea...

The Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) is an island nation in the Pacific made up of four states: Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei and Kosrae. Pohnpei ...

Climate change cannot be denied anymore (although some silly scientists and politicians still do) and it will have a profound effect on bana...

Banana Freckle Disease is caused by a fungus that has two distinct forms (and names): Guignardia musae (telomorph) or Phyllosticta musarum ...

Banana Xanthomonas Wilt (BXW) is also known as banana bacterial wilt (BBW) or enset wilt. It is a bacterial disease caused by Xanthomonas ca...

During the summer of 2014, samples were collected of Bananas affected by Panama disease on three different islands. Research by Nani Maryani...

Sometimes people selfmedicate. I personally have friends who take speed to calm down. From a medical perspective that makes sense, because i...

Authorities in Nanning town, in the Zhuang du Guangxi region are trying to save some part of this year's banana harvest that has been se...

Last week storms and heavy rains affected around 15000 hectares of banana plantations in the Northern Colombian Uraba region. According to o...

The banana is under serious threat. A fungus, Fusarium oxysporum cubense Tropical Race 4 (TR-4) can potentially wipe out the banana as we k...

Wild banana species are largely distributed in some tropical rainforests, wet evergreen forests to deciduous forests of low rain fall zones....