(Reuters) - The prime minister of Laos has voiced concern over widespread chemical usage on banana plantations after a Reuters report on Chinese-run farms in the Southeast Asian country. Reuters ...

In a new study, researchers have uncovered a wealth of hidden diversity among wild banana species in mainland Southeast Asia. The discovery, which has been published in PLoS ONE, highlights the ...

Study found that Beauveria caledonica can be used for biological control of banana borers and Fusarium wilt, which are serious threats to a tropical and subtropical crop. The soil fungus supplements ...

The pattern of arm branching and arm morphology in the camerate crinoid family Melocrinitidae became more complex during an evolutionary sequence which extended from Late Ordovician to Late Devonian.

You may not realize it, but every banana we eat is genetically identical. So if a fungus or disease strikes, it will spread quickly through the population. It’s happened once before–and is a sign of ...

A deadly fungus is spreading through banana plantations, and the cloned bananas we eat are defenseless. In labs around the world, scientists are trying to find ways to genetically alter the fruit to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. In the 1950s, the most popular banana in the world was ...

Banana workers, including children as young as eight years old, suffer from a range of abuses on plantations in Ecuador whose government fails to enforce international labor standards or even its own ...

Banana’s are the main export of Martinique and many of the residents work on these farms. Visit the Banana Museum, which abuts a 100-acre plantation and see the banana plants in person.Napoleon's ...

Banana plantation in Vasai has been hit because of the torrential downpour on Saturday. According to the Vasai tehsildar Anant Sankhe, plantation on about 20 hectares in the area has been destroyed ...

Sept. 23 (UPI) --Nectar-eating bats that get most of their nutrition from banana plantations in Costa Rica boast less diverse gut microbiota than their peers living and eating in natural forest ...

Nectar-feeding bats foraging in intensively managed banana plantations in Costa Rica have a less diverse set of gut microbes in comparison to bats feeding in their natural forest habitat or organic ...