With his red, Abe Lincoln beard, round face and large hands, plant pathologist Emile Frison is talking bananas to me in Southern France. Not just any bananas -- genetically modified bananas, a type of ...

Headlines have been blaring that the banana will be extinct within 10 years but crop specialists say that’s not likely. The furor has called attention, however, to a problem of worldwide banana supply ...

Emile Frison is a member and founder of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food), a senior advisor to the Agroecology Coalition, and an expert on conservation and ...

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That popular song 'Yes, we have no bananas' could become a reality in 10 years, warns Belgian plant pathologist Emile Frison in the New Scientist. The sterile, seedless banana hasn't, she says, had ...

Edible bananas may disappear within a decade if urgent action is not taken to develop new varieties resistant to blight. A Belgian scientist leading research into the fruit loved by millions, and a ...