During the summer of 1989, Randy Ploetz was in his laboratory just south of Miami, when he received a package from Taiwan. Ploetz, who had earned his doctorate in plant pathology five years earlier, ...
Cavendish bananas seem to be abundant in grocery stores, but a fungus has been threatening its existence for years, and saving it might become a technological endeavor. The fungus that’s hunting the ...
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 ...
Sweet, filling, reliable bananas are the most popular fruit in the United States, outselling apples and oranges. But our modern bananas are threatened by a disease that has already taken out an entire ...
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