Planting seeds in a banana provides nutrients and improves soil structure for healthy plants. Easy-to-follow steps guide you ...

The fungus strain attacking Cavendish bananas, called Tropical Race 4 (TR4), can also infect other varieties of banana plant. Fusarium TR4 was first detected in the 1990s in Malaysia and Indonesia ...

Each plant was a clone of roughly the same size and shape, produced from suckers – lateral shoots that develop from the rootstalk – making it easy to mass produce. It means each banana plant ...

In Colombia, finding a banana plant infected with Fusarium means losing 2.56 hectares of production, on average, due to the quarantine regulatory area established in this country. This ...