Banana peels hold the key to reducing tons of food waste. A new study released in Physical Biology reveals how the browning of this household staple can be explained and modeled.
General Physics
May 11, 2022
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Wrapping potato seeds in biodegradable paper made from unusable parts of banana plants reduces the infestation and harmful effects of a nasty plant pathogen—a worm called the potato cyst nematode—and sharply increases ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 8, 2022
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Scientists have found a novel way to combine two species of grass-like plant including banana, rice and wheat, using embryonic tissue from their seeds. The technique allows beneficial characteristics, such as disease resistance ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 22, 2021
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Nectar-feeding bats foraging in intensively managed banana plantations in Costa Rica have a less diverse set of gut microbes in comparison to bats feeding in their natural forest habitat or organic plantations, reveals new ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 23, 2021
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Banana bunchy top virus (BBTV) is an aphid-transmitted banana disease that has been in Australia since 1913 and has been contained by biosecurity agencies to southeast Queensland and northern New South Wales. Badly affected ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 10, 2020
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Humans began transporting and growing banana in Vanuatu 3000 years ago, a University of Otago scientist has discovered.
Archaeology
Jan 23, 2020
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Biodegradable 'plastic' bags made out of banana plants sounds a bit...bananas, but a couple of UNSW researchers have found a way to do it, and it could solve two industrial waste problems in one.
Materials Science
Nov 29, 2019
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Climate change could negatively impact banana cultivation in some of the world's most important producing and exporting countries, a study has revealed.
Ecology
Sep 2, 2019
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Climate change has raised the risk of a fungal disease that ravages banana crops, new research shows.
Ecology
May 6, 2019
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QUT researchers have developed and grown modified Cavendish bananas resistant to the devastating soil-borne fungus Fusarium wilt tropical race 4 (TR4), also known as Panama disease.
Biotechnology
Nov 15, 2017
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