We did a deep dive.

The banana is the world's most important fruit. But it's under threat from a disease spreading around the world. We'll hear from Dan Koeppel, author of the book Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That ...

Bananas grow in a greenhouse at Elo Life Sciences, an RTP company who is developing a genetically modified banana that is resistant to a deadly fungus sweeping through much of the world’s banana crop ...

Breeding a stronger, better banana is not for the weak-willed. The plants are so sterile that scientists must mush up several acres’ worth of fruit to get just a couple of hundred seeds to work with — ...