Scientists develop fully fertile Cavendish banana in bid to save the fruit

Yelloway, a research collaboration between Chiquita and crop-improvement firm KeyGene, says it has developed a fully fertile Cavendish banana. That could allow cross-breeding of new commercially viable, disease-resistant varieties. The climate crisis and deadly diseases threaten the Cavendish, one of more than 1,000 varieties, with about 139m tonnes of bananas grown worldwide each year.