South American Cucurbit Fruit Fly, Anastrepha grandis (Macquart) (Insecta: Diptera: Tephritidae) by Howard V. Weems, Jr.

“…It has been intercepted in the United States in pumpkin from Argentina and Brazil, and one adult was found in banana debris from Panama. This document is EENY-205 (originally published as DPI Entomology Circular 334), one of a series of Featured Creatures from the Entomology and Nematology Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. …”
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Reflectance of Biological Turbid Tissues under Wide Area Illumination: Single Backward Scattering Approach by Guennadi Saiko, Alexandre Douplik

“…Various scenarios of light propagation paths in turbid media (single backward scattering, multiple backward scattering, banana shape) are discussed and their contributions to reflectance spectra are estimated. …”
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Tropical Fruit Pest Management Strategic Plan (PMSP) by Mark A. Mossler, Olaf Norman Nesheim

“…Participants developed strategic plans for avocado, banana, carambola, guava, lychee, longan, mamey sapote, mango, papaya, passionfruit, sapodilla, and sugar apple. …”
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Irrigation System Descriptions for Tropical and Subtropical Fruit Crops in Florida by Jonathan Henry Crane, Haimanote Bayabil, Edward A. Evans, Fredy Ballen

“… Florida's tropical and subtropical fruit crop industries use various irrigation systems, including high-volume systems designed for irrigation and freeze protection, drip systems for herbaceous fruit crops (papaya, banana), and microsprinkler types, mainly for irrigation and fertigation. …”
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Irrigation System Descriptions for Tropical and Subtropical Fruit Crops in Florida by Jonathan Henry Crane, Haimanote Bayabil, Edward A. Evans, Fredy Ballen

“… Florida's tropical and subtropical fruit crop industries use various irrigation systems, including high-volume systems designed for irrigation and freeze protection, drip systems for herbaceous fruit crops (papaya, banana), and microsprinkler types, mainly for irrigation and fertigation. …”
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Huntsman Spider, Heteropoda venatoria (Linnaeus) (Arachnida: Araneae: Sparassidae) by Glavis B. Edwards, Jr.

“….), sometimes called the giant crab spider or the banana spider (due to its occasional appearance in marketed bananas), is a cosmotropical species introduced into and now occurring in the U.S., in subtropical areas of Florida, Texas, and California. …”
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Potential use of Spirulina sp. as fish feed : A mini review by Rhiana Prameswari, Yuli Andriani, Iwang Gumilar, Zahidah Hasan

“…The types of inorganic media that can be used are Urea, TSP, Zarrouk, Conwy and Walne, while the organic media that can be used are vermicompost, quail droppings, guano, liquid waste from banana stems, coconut husks, canna plants, fermented Azolla pinnata , and bioslurry . …”
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Huntsman Spider, Heteropoda venatoria (Linnaeus) (Arachnida: Araneae: Sparassidae) by Glavis B. Edwards, Jr.

“….), sometimes called the giant crab spider or the banana spider (due to its occasional appearance in marketed bananas), is a cosmotropical species introduced into and now occurring in the U.S., in subtropical areas of Florida, Texas, and California. …”
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impact strength of composite with Abaća (Musa textilis) fiber by Muhammad Alif Akbar, Heni Hendaryati, Mohamad Irkham Mamungkas

“…The purpose of this study was to determine the impact strength of composites with chopped and intact banana fiber filler with a weight fraction of 10%, 20% and 30%. …”
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Tropical Fruit Pest Management Strategic Plan (PMSP) by Mark A. Mossler, Olaf Norman Nesheim

“…Participants developed strategic plans for avocado, banana, carambola, guava, lychee, longan, mamey sapote, mango, papaya, passionfruit, sapodilla, and sugar apple. …”
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The Impact of Modified Atmosphere Storage Treatment on Glucose Levels and Mass Transfer Coefficients: A Study Based on Fruit Skin Thickness by Agri Suwandi, Wina Libyawati, Esti Mulatsari

“…Each level is represented respectively by orange, banana, and watermelon. Both fruits with and without MAS treatment are quantified by measuring glucose level, to make a comparation.  …”
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The roles of Non Timber Forest Products in the development of community forestry in Menoreh Hills (A case of Hargorejo Village, Kokap, Kulon Progo Regency, Yogyakarta) by Maria Palmolina

“…Further, the NTFPs plants grown were fruit crops (banana, jackfruit), food crops (cassava, corn, soybeans, peanuts), and herbs (ginger, turmeric, temulawak). …”
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Organic Compounds: Contents and Their Role in Improving Seed Germination and Protocorm Development in Orchids by Edy Setiti Wida Utami, Sucipto Hariyanto

“…., coconut water (CW), peptone (P), banana homogenate (BH), potato homogenate (PH), chitosan (CHT), tomato juice (TJ), and yeast extract (YE), can promote seed germination and growth and development of various orchids. …”
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Cambios en la producción y consumo de viandas en Cuba by Norma Helen Juárez

“…The focus of analysis was the use of "viandas", a term constituting a food group composed of various roots, tubers, rhizomes, banana and squash of the genuses Maníhot, discorea, Xanthosoma, ipomoea, solanum, colocasia, musa y cucúrbita. …”
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Biodiversity through Domestication by Wulf Schiefenhövel

“…It is not widely known that Melanesia became a centre of horticulture and arboriculture about 8,000 years ago: taro (Colocasia esculenta, Cyrtosprema chamissonis, Alocasia macrorrhiza); sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum), a close relative called sayur lilin in Bahasa Indonesia, respectively pitpit in Neomelanesian Pidgin (Saccharum edule) of which the young inflorescence is eaten; yams (Dioscorea bulbifera and possibly other species like D. alata); banana (Musa spp., comprising Australimusa and Eumusa); two or more Setaria species (Setaria palmifolia, Setaria plicata...); beans of the genus Phaseolus; probably Rungia klossii and Abelmoschus manihot (cp. …”
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Determination of NAD+ precursors nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN) and nicotinamide riboside (NR) in plant foods: exploring dietary sources by Gabriela Fabiana Soares Alegre, Glaucia Maria Pastore

“…Broccoli and green beans were identified as rich sources of NMN, whereas wild chicory, banana, and orange had the highest NR content. This study enhances our understanding of how to optimize NAD+ levels through dietary sources and advances knowledge in food science and nutrition.…”
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Evaluation of nineteen food wastes for essential and toxic elements by Saranya Kuppusamy, Kadiyala Venkateswarlu, Mallavarapu Megharaj

“…However, food wastes like banana peel, plum pomace and pistachio shell that contain low and permissible concentrations of toxic elements can be recommended as dietary supplements for oral intake in spite of their lesser essential elemental composition than the other residues examined. …”
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Fungus- (Alternaria sp.) Mediated Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis, Characterization, and Screening of Antifungal Activity against Some Phytopathogens by Theint Theint Win, Sikandar Khan, PengCheng Fu

“…Biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles was performed by using phytopathogenic fungi (Alternaria sp.) isolated from banana cultivated soil. Alternaria sp. can grow very fast and produce high enough bioactive compounds. …”
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Exploring climate change resilience of major crops in Somalia: implications for ensuring food security by Abdikafi Hassan Abdi, Mohamed Okash Sugow, Dhaqane Roble Halane

“…The empirical findings from the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach reveal that increasing precipitation positively impacts the long-run output of sorghum, sugarcane, and banana while adversely affecting bean production. …”
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Statistique appliquée aux images NOAA pour le suivi du couvert végétal des bassins versants d'Aghien et de la Mé by Zamblé Armand Tra Bi, Djibril Noufé, Bamory Kamagaté, Kôkôh Rose Effebi, Yemou Jeanne N’tain, Seydou Diallo, Fabrice Nguetta, Karoui Hela, Droh Laciné Goné, Jean Louis, Luc Séguis

“…These landscape changes are linked to the pecuniary interests of different perennial crops over the years (coffee, cocoa, rubber, palm oil and sweet banana). The study of the evolution of the vegetation cover of the watersheds of Aghien and Mé from 1982 to 2013 aims to take stock of the spatio-temporal transformations of the landscape units of these two basins. …”
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