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Taxonomy and Origins of the Cultivated Banana (1955) Bananas (1959, 1966, and with Robert Stover in 1987) Variability in Crop Plants (1962) Evolution of Bananas (1962) Evolution of Crop Plants (1976, ed. and author) Principles of Crop Improvement (1979); 2nd edition with coauthor J. Smartt (1999) [7] Plant Breeding: The State of the Art (1983)
It imported plants that had commercial potential and conducted experiments to determine if they could be adapted to Queensland's tropical and sub-tropical climate. Plants researched included sugar cane, bananas, cotton, apples, pineapples, pasture grasses, maize, olives, mangoes, pecan nuts and macadamia nuts.
Musa acuminata is a species of banana native to Southern Asia, its range comprising the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. Many of the modern edible dessert bananas are from this species, although some are hybrids with Musa balbisiana. [5] First cultivated by humans around 8000 BCE, [6] [7] it is one of the early examples of domesticated ...
It imported plants that had commercial potential and conducted experiments to determine if they could be adapted to Queensland's tropical and sub-tropical climate. Plants researched included sugar cane, bananas, cotton, apples, pineapples, pasture grasses, maize, olives, mangoes, pecan nuts and macadamia nuts.
Musaceae is a family of flowering plants composed of three genera with about 91 known species, [3] placed in the order Zingiberales. The family is native to the tropics of Africa and Asia. The plants have a large herbaceous growth habit with leaves with overlapping basal sheaths that form a pseudostem making some members appear to be woody trees.
The Fairtrade Minimum Price for bananas is different for each region and is based on the costs of sustainable production. The Fairtrade price for organic bananas is higher than for conventional. Click here to see the full list of Fairtrade prices for bananas. A Fairtrade Premium of 1 US$ per 18.14 kilo-box of bananas is paid to producer ...
Cavendish bananas, accounting for around 99% of banana exports to developed countries, are vulnerable to the fungal disease known as Panama disease. There is a risk of extinction of the variety. Because Cavendish bananas are parthenocarpic (they don't have seeds and reproduce only through cloning), their
South Korea's cultivated area of subtropical crops has jumped from about 295 hectares (730 acres) in 2021 to 3,306 hectares in 2023, with 67 banana farms in the south, according to the Rural ...