Bananas have been a cornerstone of diets worldwide, yet their future hangs in the balance due to a fungal disease known as ...

Following is a transcription of the video: Narrator: The world's most popular banana may be on the verge of extinction. Fernando: Similar to humans, bananas are also facing a pandemic. Narrator ...

Before the Cavendish, there was the original banana, which was called the Gros Michel. It was eaten prior to the 1950s, but by the 1960s, it was extinct, and the Cavendish became the norm.

An curved arrow pointing right. There is a major event affecting the world's banana supply. If the disease succeeds, we could be left without the bananas we grew up with. Produced by Kevin Reilly.

World's Top Banana Could Go Extinct The most common variety of banana, the seedless Cavendish, is under threat from a fungus known as Fusarium wilt. Research projects are under way around the ...

Those old ones, the Gros Michel bananas, are functionally extinct, victims of the first Fusarium outbreak in the 1950s.” Li-Jun Ma, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of ...

Banana which is touted as a great fruits which is full of nutrition may become extinct. The reason is India! Nothing to blame it about but the fact is that it has been found that almost all ...