Prices for Philippine bananas have been flat for seven years, but a surge in production costs amid the Ukraine crisis have made current margins untenable, embassy officials said. ($1 = 133.2500 yen) ...

Researchers have developed a banana plant that is resistant to both fusarium tropical race 4 (TR4) and black sigatoka, two of the most destructive diseases for bananas.

As Food & Wine reported in September, bananas across the globe are facing extinction due to TR4. It specifically affects Cavendish bananas, the world's most popular type of banana, attacking the ...

Almost all of the global banana exports come from this variety, according to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in the U.K. Get the world’s most fascinating discoveries delivered straight to your inbox.

About 170 of Mr. Sachter-Smith’s finds reside in the International Musa Germplasm Transit Center, a gene bank in Belgium that safeguards the in vitro DNA of more than 1,600 banana varieties for ...