Cavendish bananas -- those are the large, yellow ones we all know today -- are sterile, which means they contain no seeds. Instead, they rely on cloning to make more banana plants, making them ...

However, there was a flaw with this replacement plan -- Cavendish banana seeds are sterile, meaning they rely on propagation through cloning to produce new plants. This means almost every ...

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 ...

In fact, Cavendish – the banana variety most of us eat today that ... After all, no pollination means no annoying seeds, which may be good news for hungry consumers but also means there ...