@DrBanana
Scientist - Head Banana Breeding Program - Fusarium TR4 consultant - Artist
Dr. Banana on YouTube
Dr. Banana on YouTube
Hi! I’m Fernando Garcia, aka Ferchucky or Dr. Banana 🍌 a plant scientist, agronomist, and a bit of an artist. I create #SciComm, fun videos, and #Bananatoons, sharing my 20+ years working with crops like coffee and bananas. I’m the lead of the Yelloway breeding program at KeyGene, a consultant expert on Fusarium TR4, and I love giving a behind-the-scenes look at plant science through vlogs. I also explore unusual bonsai from #AvocadoBonsai to mangoes, coffee, and coconuts. Currently, we’re relaunching our podcast, “Unpeeled with Dr Banana”. Subscribe to join the journey and grow amazing plants with me! 🌱
Unpeeled with Dr. Banana | Podcast on Spotify
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Unpeeled with Dr. Banana | Podcast on Spotify
Podcast · Fernando Garcia-Bastidas · Unpeeled with Dr Banana (English & Español) is a podcast where we peel back science, art, and food to meet the humans behind the work. Through relaxed conversations with scientists, artists, chefs, and creatives, we explore process, curiosity, failure, and the stories that live beneath titles and results.
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Book Chapter Fusarium TR
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Featured on Business insider
Featured on Business insider
Featured on Wall Street Journal
Featured on Wall Street Journal
Chiquita announced a new disease-resistant strain, and Australian researchers have developed a genetically modified fruit.
Featured on Dutch TV
Featured on Dutch TV
Het wordt een doorbraak in de bananenteelt genoemd: een bananenplant die bestand is tegen de twee meest verwoestende bananenziekten. Door verschillende bananenrassen met elkaar te kruisen ontstond een nieuwe, onverwoestbare soort. Volgens onderzoekers van verschillende Gelderse bedrijven gaat deze plant honderden miljoenen dollars besparen en gaan vooral kleine boeren in Afrika, Azië en Latijns-Amerika het verschil merken.
Featured on Fresh Plaza
Featured on Fresh Plaza
Yelloway, an initiative of Chiquita, KeyGene, MusaRadix and Wageningen University & Research (WUR), introduces Yelloway One, a novel triploid banana hybrid that is resistant to the fungal…
Ciéntífico colombiano presenta primera planta de banano resistente al Fusarium RT4
Ciéntífico colombiano presenta primera planta de banano resistente al Fusarium RT4
Opmerkelijk: door ziektes bedreigde bananen gered door nieuwe variant uit de Betuwe | Change Inc.
Opmerkelijk: door ziektes bedreigde bananen gered door nieuwe variant uit de Betuwe | Change Inc.
Deze week in Opmerkelijk: een nieuw, robuust type bananenplant groeit niet in Colombia of Ecuador, maar gewoon in de Betuwe.
Presentan la primera planta de banano resistente al Fusarium RT4: Yelloway One
Presentan la primera planta de banano resistente al Fusarium RT4: Yelloway One
El nuevo híbrido está siendo sometido a pruebas de invernadero, con pruebas de campo planificadas en Filipinas e Indonesia, regiones muy afectadas por estas enfermedades.
Featured on NRC
Featured on NRC
Plantenveredeling: In een recordtijd van drie jaar ontwikkelden onderzoekers in een kas in Bemmel een ziektebestendige banaan. Nu volgen praktijkproeven.
ARTE Regards - Pays-Bas, la nourriture du futur ? - Regarder le documentaire complet | ARTE
ARTE Regards - Pays-Bas, la nourriture du futur ? - Regarder le documentaire complet | ARTE
Reto de reconstruir 🍌 Cavendish
Reto de reconstruir 🍌 Cavendish
Letal y devastadora. Desde que apareciese por primera vez en Taiwán en 1989, el Fusarium Raza 4 Tropical ha ido aniquilando miles de hectáreas de banano Cavendish en todo el planeta. ¿Métodos de control? Ninguno. ¿Alguna pronta solución? Tampoco. Sin embargo, hay grandes posibilidades de ver la luz al final del túnel gracias al mejoramiento genético. ¿Cómo? ‘reconstruyendo’ a la variedad Cavendish. Ese, precisamente es el trabajo que está realizando el Dr. Fernando García Bastidas, un científico colombiano afincado hace más de una década en Países Bajos, revela en esta entrevista cuál es la línea de investigación para dar con una variedad resistente a este hongo. Un trabajo innovador de un investigador inquieto y famoso, al que la industria de esta fruta lo conoce como el Dr. Banana.
Onze banaan is ziek, en daarom kweekt mr. Banana een superversie
Onze banaan is ziek, en daarom kweekt mr. Banana een superversie
Red de banaan; schimmels en ziektes dreigen deze populaire vrucht wereldwijd uit te roeien
Red de banaan; schimmels en ziektes dreigen deze populaire vrucht wereldwijd uit te roeien
Featured in Business Insider
Featured in Business Insider
Bananas are facing a pandemic, too. Almost all of the bananas exported globally are just one variety called the Cavendish. And the Cavendish is vulnerable to...
Featured in Forbes
Featured in Forbes
Colombian Fernando Garcia-Bastidas has worked his whole career to save bananas from extinction by Panama Disease, but now his work has new urgency after having to inform authorities in his home country that a new strain had arrived. #globalsouthscience
My interview in BBC by Louise Gray
My interview in BBC by Louise Gray
My Book for Diagnostics of Fusarium Tropical Race 4 (Spanish)
My Book for Diagnostics of Fusarium Tropical Race 4 (Spanish)
The Naked Scientist interview
The Naked Scientist interview
Bananamania FruitNet
Bananamania FruitNet
Interview for Belgium magazine about my social media content
Interview for Belgium magazine about my social media content
My Scientific Work
My Scientific Work
BananaToons (Instagram)
BananaToons (Instagram)
Fusarium (Panama Disease) as never seen before!
Fusarium (Panama Disease) as never seen before!
My work featured in Nature
My work featured in Nature
My work featured on New York Post
My work featured on New York Post
Panama Disease TR4 first report Latin America
Panama Disease TR4 first report Latin America
Featured NatGeo: Diagnostics Panama Disease Colombia
Featured NatGeo: Diagnostics Panama Disease Colombia
Interview for the BBC radio (Dan Saladino)
Interview for the BBC radio (Dan Saladino)
Featured in the Daily Mail
Featured in the Daily Mail
Featured in FruitNet
Featured in FruitNet
Featured in NPR Panama Disease
Featured in NPR Panama Disease
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Featured in "The Scientist"
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Featured in National Geographic
Bananaman on TV
Bananaman on TV
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Wish List
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Contribute to the Banana Collection
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