Most important, Cavendish is immune to TR1. “Cavendish has a lot of characteristics that make them the ideal export banana,” ...

A staple of breakfasts and desserts, the Cavendish banana is now facing an unprecedented threat. A fearsome fungus, Panama ...

Narrator: Ninety-nine percent of bananas exported to developed countries are just one group called the Cavendish. And the Cavendish is vulnerable to Tropical Race 4, or Panama disease, a fungus ...

By the 1960s, one cultivar, the Cavendish, showed signs of resistance that could save the banana industry. Named after the 7th Duke of Devonshire, William Cavendish, who grew the plant in his ...

Virtually all the bananas sold across the Western world belong to the so-called Cavendish subgroup of the species and are genetically nearly identical. These bananas are sterile and dependent on ...

Our standard supermarket banana, a variety called Cavendish, may be at the brink of disaster. Chosen for its resistance to a fungal pathogen that wiped out its predecessor, the Gros Michel banana, the ...

With humour and curiosity, our blogger reflects on the bizarre research topics of today—from cavendish bananas and men’s eating habits to the oddity of Ancient Roman studies.

But it turns out more and more Kiwis are getting into the banana game, and there are way more varieties than the Cavendish kind we see in stores. Ed Hayes and his wife, who had a plantation in ...

By the 1960s, one cultivar, the Cavendish, showed signs of resistance that could save the banana industry. Named after the 7th Duke of Devonshire, William Cavendish, who grew the plant in his ...