The banana bunchy top virus has killed 3,000 plants at the KwaNyuswa Agricultural Farm since February 2025. The community-owned farm is reeling from a R500,000 revenue loss, threatening the ...

Banana streak viruses (BSVs) are considered a major constraint to banana production worldwide. The integrated BSV sequence in the banana genome makes the nucleo-based detection unreliable and the ...

Scientists at two Belgian universities have discovered that human retrovirus drugs normally used to fight HIV can eradicate viral diseases in bananas. Researchers at Gembloux University and the ...

China's Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) on Thursday dismissed a rumour that bananas grown in its southern island province of Hainan contain a virus similar to that of the severe acute respiratory ...

The banana bunchy top virus has killed 3,000 plants at the KwaNyuswa Agricultural Farm since February 2025. The community-owned farm is reeling from a R500,000 revenue loss, threatening the ...