How India’s ‘kadali phalam’ evolved into the widely recognised banana over the last 5000 years
Bananas originated in India over 5000 years ago as 'kadali phalam' and spread globally through Alexander the Great’s ...
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Banana apocalypse, part 2 – a genomicist explains the tricky genetics of the fungus devastating bananas worldwide
As a species complex, F ... the domination of the international banana industry by a single clone of banana. Growing different varieties of bananas can make agriculture more sustainable and ...
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Adaptive Radiation: Darwin's Finches
There are now at least 13 species of finches on the Galapagos Islands, each filling a different niche on different islands. All of them evolved from one ancestral species, which colonized the ...