Increasingly popular, they add structure and panache to both indoor and outdoor gardens.From dwarf varieties at 3 feet tall ...

The targeted traits are improved agronomical characters such as height reduction, earliness and larger fruit size. Although disease resistance ... Banana through the Global Musa Genomics Consortium ...

and they all belong to the genus Musa. Banana plants originated in Southeast Asia near present-day Malaysia and Indonesia. Travelers introduced the plant to Africa sometime in prehistoric times and ...