A recent study conducted by scientists at ESPOL has unveiled the biotechnological potential of microorganisms from Antarctica ...

Making oncom is almost magical. It starts with a pile of soy pulp, which is wrapped in banana leaves and sprinkled with the ...

There's no cure for a fungal disease that could potentially wipe out much of global banana production. Widespread adoption of ...

A deadly fungus is threatening to destroy most of the ... Now, a bioengineering firm is trying to save the banana through gene editing. Todd Rands, CEO of Elo Life Systems, joins us to discuss.

News broke late last week that a fungal disease that kills Cavendish banana plants has been detected in Latin America for the first time. A strain of the Fusarium fungus, which causes so-called ...

And the Cavendish is vulnerable to Tropical Race 4, or Panama disease, a fungus that's now ravaging banana farms across the globe. Fernando: So now you can compare, this is Tropical Race 4 in a ...

Researchers have developed a new disease-resistant banana called Yelloway One. Yelloway researchers use conventional breeding techniques, not genetic modification. The Yelloway Initiative is ...

Also known as Panama Disease, it is a fungus that has been rampaging through banana farms for the past 30 years. But within the last decade the epidemic has suddenly accelerated, spreading from ...

The fungus, known as 'Panama disease,' only affects the plant and not the fruit, so it allegedly bears no risk to human health. A Colombian banana production farm near the Venezuelan border has ...