Bananas are one of the most consumed agricultural products in the country. In fact, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) ...

Bananas are one of the most consumed agricultural products in the country. The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported that banana production was estimated at 2.29 million metric tons from ...

Black leaf streak disease is a debilitating infection that for the last 50 years has been attacking plantain and banana plants, delaying harvest and affecting fruit quality by impeding leaf ...

Even with an avenue for controlling the disease, crop diversity could further reduce the fungus' virulence. Bananas are being infected by a disease called Fusarium wilt of banana (FWB), caused by ...

It’s hard to believe such a commonplace food as the banana could go extinct, but this reality has already happened and ...

The reddening of the seeds inside the fruit indicates the fungus's presence within a banana. So, before eating a banana ...

BANANAS are one of the most consumed agricultural products in the country. In fact, the Philippine Statistics Authority ...

The pathogenic fungus Fusarium wilt tropical race 4 (TR4), already widespread on several other continents, has been found for the first time infecting banana plants in Latin America, researchers ...

And the Cavendish is vulnerable to Tropical Race 4, or Panama disease, a fungus that's now ravaging banana farms across the globe. Fernando: So now you can compare, this is Tropical Race 4 in a ...

The fungus, known as 'Panama disease,' only affects the plant and not the fruit, so it allegedly bears no risk to human health. A Colombian banana production farm near the Venezuelan border has ...