Bananas are one of the most popular and loved fruits around the world. They are packed with potassium, vitamin B6, fiber, and ...

The banana you know and love — specifically, the Cavendish cultivar — faces a deadly threat. Fungal diseases are spreading across the globe, ... where an entire banana variety is wiped out.

If you've seen the two side by side at a grocery store, bananas and plantains look pretty similar. But are these fruits one ...

The Cavendish variety is the most popular banana commercially available. Even though it was created to be less susceptible to disease, the Cavendish faced its first brush with extinction in the 1990s.

When you think of a banana, it's sweet, yellow, and seedless. But this wasn't always the case! Bananas once had a lot of big seeds. Here's what changed.

The most common commercial variety of banana, the Gros Michel, was devastated. Today’s common supermarket variety, the Cavendish, was brought in at the time because of its resistance to TR4.

The cultivars were shipped around the world, and became the top banana in the 1950s when Panama disease devastated the Gros Michel (“Big Mike”) variety which formerly held that position.