Any banana you eat today is probably a clone. You may have noticed it doesn’t have seeds. And that’s because nearly every banana sold globally is a genetic copy of a single variety: the Cavendish. The ...

Representational photo: The reason the original disease and its latest permutation are so threatening to bananas is largely a result of the way in which we have cultivated the fruit. In the mid 1900s, ...

Grand Naine, the first banana commercial tissue culture plant variety released by Haryana horticulture department for cultivation in Haryana to give a major fillip to the production of the banana crop ...