The fruit recently secured regulatory approval for import and sale in Japan and Brazil, with Brazil also approving it for ...

The world's banana supply faces a severe threat from fungus. Researchers are developing gene-edited, disease-resistant bananas, with some nearing commercial deployment.

During the summer of 1989, Randy Ploetz was in his laboratory just south of Miami, when he received a package from Taiwan. Ploetz, who had earned his doctorate in plant pathology five years earlier, ...