(Chris Petersen via AP) This 2003 image provided by Chris Petersen shows tropical banana plants growing on the Farmingdale ...

News broke late last week that a fungal disease that kills Cavendish banana plants has been detected in Latin America for the first time. A strain of the Fusarium fungus, which causes so-called ...

and was recently published in the journal Plants, People, Planet, providing new insights into banana diversity. The result is a series of colorful, mosaic-like image representations of chromosomes ...

The soft, yellow flesh of the edible varieties is the result of a mutation many thousands of years ago that rendered the fruits of these plants sterile. In fact, Cavendish – the banana variety ...

The huge variety of leaves in the plant kingdom has long been a source of wonder and fascination. The leaves of a banana plant, for instance, are about a million times bigger than the leaves of ...