It's a little known fact that we humans are said to share 50% of our genes with a banana – so why not keep it in the family ...
Social media is rife with claims that banana skins can have a transformative effect on our houseplants. James Wong unpeels the science behind the trend ...
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Fernando: So now you can compare, this is Tropical Race 4 in a Cavendish banana. Then this plant looks very healthy. Narrator: One scientist recently developed a line of Cavendish that is ...
The fungus strain attacking Cavendish bananas, called Tropical Race 4 (TR4), can also infect other varieties of banana plant. Fusarium TR4 was first detected in the 1990s in Malaysia and Indonesia ...
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 ...
The Living Rainforest is celebrating the successful propagation of ‘water banana’ plants inside its tropical glasshouses at ...