Bananas didn't always taste so sweet and seedless. Before they went mainstream as a snack, tough, seed-filled bananas were ...

The anatomy of the adventitious roots of Musa acuminata cv. Gros Michel is described. Interesting anatomical features are the occurrence of lysigenous lacunae in the cortex and the presence of very ...

JERRY COLEBY-WILLIAMS: I love my bananas. Some I cook and eat green as an alternative to potato, but most of them I enjoy sweet as a ripe fruit. This one behind me is Lady Finger. (Musa acuminata'Lady ...

Fruits and veggies used to look a lot different. Domestication has led to a lot of changes. Wild carrots were likely cultivated around the 10th century. They were purple or white, very thin, with a ...

Bananas have been cultivated for thousands of years. But are the days of the familiar Cavendish numbered? Image courtesy of Flickr user Jason Gulledge When I pack my lunch box in the morning, my ...

Bananas are thought to have been first domesticated by people 7,000 years ago on the island of New Guinea. But the domestication history of bananas is complicated, while their classification is hotly ...

One wild banana species, Musa yunnanensis Häkkinen & Wang Hong, and one variety of Musa L., M. acuminata Colla var. chinensis Häkkinen & Wang Hong, from Yunnan, China, are newly described and ...

Musa acuminata Colla is normally understood to be an Assam species which ranges, in one of its many forms, from north-eastern India, through Indo-China, Malaya and the Archipelago, to Queensland and ...