How did a tropical fruit 🍌 become cheaper & more popular than the fruit easily grown nearby 🍎? Jennie Coleman from The ONLY Banana gives us some history.

The Blue Java is a hardy, cold tolerant banana cultivar known for its sweet aromatic fruit, which is said to have an ice cream like consistency and flavor reminiscent of vanilla [read more: ow.ly/SqUn30o6i14]

Anonymous follower contributes with my #BananaReport #53 "A banana that weights exactly 250 g and costs exactly 0.50 €" How much does a banana cost in your country? In Colombia with 0.50€ I get ~ half kilo (also depends where) #bananacatchoftheday

It's #BlackBotanistsWeek2021! Plants are used as sources of food, medicine, clothing, storage, +shelter. CA native plants are intrinsically linked to the Indigenous peoples of the land. We are linked to plant communities around us. #BiodiversityIsPower #DiversePeopleDiversePlants

#BananaReport # 80 📸Cavendish bananas inoculated with #Fusarium spp. (Race 1 and #TropicalRace4) Cavendish cultivars are resistant to Race 1 but very susceptible to #TR4. Race 1 caused the epic epidemic (#PanamaDisease) in the 1900s that wiped out the #GrosMichel cultivar.

#BananaReport N. 108 I'm a fortunate researcher who can eat his research... in any case, don't tell anyone. #Banana #PlantBreeding

#BananaReport N. 109 Just a banana seed germinating #bananaseeds

Antony Stanley エミコthélèmak There’s a LOT more to this story. I’m working on a documentary Bananageddon about what the future of bananas might look like & why agrobiodiversity is critical to that future. Important note to The Guardian & the writer of this thread: nobody calls it “Panama 4”!! 🍌

Everybody reading about bananas in the The Guardian this week: 🤯 Me:

A better Monday thanks to The ONLY Banana La SEULE Banane Welcome to the Banana wall of fame 😅💛🍌

It is not about 1 disease. How do we manage disease complexes & climate change ? & + important how do we understand socioeconomic networks & pathogen spreading ? #banana ⁦Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT⁩

Banana bouquets ❤️ in our greenhouse #BananaReport

#Bananareport Greetings from the tropical corner of the Netherlands

#BananaReport Just imagine, 1 banana for 1 euro. 🤔 😓

Genome sequence of #Fusarium #TR4 from Peru suggests independent incursions in America. ⁦Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT⁩ ⁦INIA Perú⁩ ⁦Senasa Perú⁩ Ana Maria Leiva ⁦Wilmer Cuellar⁩ ⁦Mathieu Rouard⁩ journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mr…

This is how bananas looked before domestication. Just a few thousands of years ago. PS: Wild bananas still have fruits full of seeds #bananabreeding #bananaseeds #seeds #plantlovers

Pleased to see our latest paper Banana Research has just been published in PLoS Pathogens Pearls on the global advance of TR4 and its threat to Africa's food security. tinyurl.com/yc446s47 ProMusa World Banana Forum Wageningen U&R Bananageddon Banana Link Michael F Seidl

Guess the name of this banana cultivar. If you already know please 🙏 don’t spoil the game. 🏆 A #bananatoon for the winner & another for the most creative. Retweet with your guess 😉

It doesn’t seem like it’s in the spirit of the discourse around bananas today to really discuss constructive solutions for banana workers and smallholder farmers, But if anyone did want to support a better future for bananas, our documentary Bananageddon could use your $$.

It doesn’t seem like it’s in the spirit of the discourse around bananas today to really discuss constructive solutions for banana workers and smallholder farmers, But if anyone did want to support a better future for bananas, our documentary Bananageddon could use your $$.