From left: The wild banana plant, the Cavendish plant and the QCAV-4 banana plant “The devastating Panama disease TR4 is caused by a soil-borne fungus that stays in the ground for more than 50 ...

"We're using banana genes," he said. "We have just moved one gene from a wild banana into the Cavendish, and it's not a gene that has anything to do with fruit flavour or texture, it's a ...

The bananas we typically eat, known as Cavendish bananas ... maybe start by taking a walk on the wild banana side and expand your fruit horizons. Sign Up to receive the Twisted Sifters weekly ...

The fruit is a Cavendish Grand Nain banana that has been bioengineered with a single gene, RGA2, from the wild southeast Asian banana. 'I would say with certainty that there will be a solution ...

There are many species of wild banana and we farm numerous varieties. Today, the most common banana found in shops is the Cavendish banana from the species Musa acuminata. Almost all of the global ...

QCAV-4 is a Cavendish Grand Nain banana that has been bioengineered with a single gene, RGA2, from the wild, south-east Asian banana, Musa acuminata ssp malaccensis. Cavendish bananas already contain ...

And those Cavendish bananas only recently evolved ... considered a particularly desirable food for most of history. The wild ...

“The Cavendish banana is too beautiful to be ... Tomekpé and his associates found a promising pollinator in a wild banana from India called Calcutta 4. “It makes a good male parent ...

An academic research lab in Australia led by James Dale has already developed a “cisgenic” TR-4 resistant Cavendish banana using a gene from a wild banana. It has been approved for production ...

You see, wild bananas are chock full of seeds ... so companies shifted to growing it almost exclusively. The Cavendish banana accounts for just under half of the world's annual production of ...

Today, the most popular type of commercially available banana is the Cavendish variety, which was bred as a disease-resistant response to the Gros Michel extinction. For about 40 years ...