Banana
A banana is an elongated, edible fruit—botanically a berry—produced by several kinds of large treelike herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa. In some countries, cooking bananas are called plantains, distinguishing them from dessert bananas. The fruit is variable in size, color and firmness, but is usually elongated and curved, with soft flesh rich in starch covered with a peel, which may have a variety of colors when ripe. It grows upward in clusters near the top of the plant. Almost all modern edible seedless (parthenocarp) cultivated bananas come from two wild species – Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana, or their hybrids.
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Research Mentions
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Precision editing to improve fruit traits: CRISPR/Cas into the picture.
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Fruit peel waste becomes a water-saving gel for dry gardens
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Resistant bananas recruit bodyguard bacteria to fight deadly fungus
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Deep convolutional models for robust multi-crop disease recognition...
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Friendly microbes show real promise against banana-killing fungus
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Calcium and soil microbes team up to fight coconut disease
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Unveiling the potential of banana (Musa spp.) improvement through g...
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Tropical crops hide genetic survival tricks scientists want to harness
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Four staple crops carry most of Asia's plant disease burden
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Banana family's shrinking chromosomes helped shape their brightly c...
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Bangladesh could grow fruit year-round with better storage and varieties
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Crop scraps turn into powerful water pollution filters
The banana peels and corn husks you toss in the compost bin could someday be processed into filte...
