Cavendish banana
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Cavendish bananas are the fruits of one of a number of banana cultivars belonging to the Cavendish subgroup of the AAA banana cultivar group. The same term is also used to describe the plants on which
A bunch of Cavendish bananas
Unripe cavendish bananas
The 'Super Dwarf Cavendish' cultivar
Cavendish bananas
Panama disease
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Panama disease is a plant disease that infects banana plants. It is a wilting disease caused by the fungus Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense. The pathogen is resistant to fungicides, and its control i
Cavendish banana
…Since the 1950s, these cultivars have been the most internationally traded bananas. They replaced the Gros Michel banana after it was devastated by Panama disease. They are unable to reproduce sexually, instead being propagated via identical clones. Due to this, the genetic diversity of the Cavendish banana is…
Gros Michel banana affected by disease, Costa Rica, 1919
Gros Michel
Cavendish
The fungus migrating up through the plant stem