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There’s a whole bunch of reasons to buy single bananas.
This is the first strike at East Coast ports since 1977. About 45,000 workers have walked off the job.
Fusarium oxysporum can infect over 120 plant species. Whether it destroys Cavendish bananas as it did their predecessor depends on the agricultural industry and consumers.
You don’t need a fancy qualification for these experiments – just some curiosity and few household basics.
Genome analysis of common tropical crops reveals genetic diversity that is crucial to their improvement in face of environmental challenges.
There are lots of other ingredients you can use to make foods puff and rise, give your meal a rich taste, or to hold together ingredients.
There are a lot of tummy bugs about, especially in NSW. But does the old advice of what to eat and drink during recovery still hold true?
Each food-based vitamin A programme carries different advantages and issues.
The US grows hardly any tropical fruit. So why are politicians and political commentators saying the country is at risk of devolving into a banana republic?
How companies love to tell us all the great things they’re doing to help women.
Scientists are in a race to genetically engineer a new plant resistant to a devastating disease that is threatening to wipe out the banana.
Analysis suggests import restrictions on bananas in Australia are a classic rent‐seeking policy, leaving Australians to subsidise each grower by more than $250,000 a year.
The story of Britain’s favourite tropical fruit (and how it came to dominate the world).
A fly scientist ponders the genetics of bananas and dwarves, women and love in reviews of his favourite fiction and non-fiction books.
Every single Cavendish banana plant worldwide is genetically identical. This vast monoculture sets them up for disastrous disease outbreaks. But researchers have ideas on how to protect the crop.
We need to break up the industry, not focus on creating a disease-resistant ‘superbanana’.
The bubble berries trialling in Waitrose supermarkets may taste of bubble gum, but they are not some clever 21st century genetic modification. These beautifully fragrant fruits, which are a variety of…
What’s not to love about bananas? Besides being a wildly popular dessert fruit, they are the staple food of millions of people in developing countries. The current edition of Nature carries a paper that…
The ban on importing apples from New Zealand was lifted earlier this month, bringing to an end a restriction established in 1921. With this long history of protection from imports, it is not unexpected…
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Professor, School of Economics, UNSW
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Professor, Senior economist and team leader Food Marketing Research, Scotland's Rural College
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