Gros Michel (French pronunciation: [ɡʁo miʃɛl]), often translated and known as "Big Mike", is an export cultivar of banana and was, until the 1950s, the...

disease almost wiped out commercial Gros Michel banana production. The Gros Michel banana was the dominant cultivar of bananas, and Fusarium wilt inflicted enormous...

been the most internationally traded bananas. They replaced the Gros Michel banana (commonly known as Kampala banana in Kenya and Bogoya in Uganda)[better source needed]...

to 'Gros Michel' at 7 m (23 ft) or more. Leaves are spirally arranged and may grow 2.7 metres (8.9 ft) long and 60 cm (2.0 ft) wide. When a banana plant...

resistance, it may destroy an entire harvest, or as in the case of the 'Gros Michel' banana, may cause the commercial extinction of an entire variety. With the...

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in Australia and the southern Pacific. He carried a few corms of Gros Michel banana from Southeast Asia, depositing them at a botanical garden on the...

destroying crops of the Gros Michel banana, Standard Fruit began looking for other cultivars to grow, settling on the Cavendish banana. Switching to the Cavendish...

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potato crop across Ireland. Until the 1950s, the Gros Michel cultivar of banana represented almost all bananas consumed in the United States because of their...

African Highland bananas, Thai banana, Gros Michel, and apple bananas are used. Commercially produced banana wine is a clear, slightly sparkling alcoholic...

shipments of the Gros Michel banana. This division was closed in the late 1930s as a result of 'Panama disease', a blight on the roots of the banana. The port...

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resistance, it may destroy an entire harvest, or as in the case of the 'Gros Michel' banana, may cause the commercial extinction of an entire variety. With the...

banana. Ambon is the capital city of an Indonesian province that was once a Dutch colony. "Pisang Ambon" is the Indonesian name for the Gros Michel cultivar...

By the 1960s, the spread of Panama disease forced exporters of Gros Michel bananas (a susceptible cultivar) to switch to growing resistant cultivars...

ports. Initially, Honduran producers focused on growing the Gros Michel type of bananas, which had important characteristics that made them easy to store...

of "banana-flavored" candy and a real banana is not due to the former being specifically designed to replicate the taste of Gros Michel bananas, the...

been described which attack different banana cultivars: Race 1 attacks cultivars in the Musa (AAA group) 'Gros Michel' and caused the 20th century epidemic...

bananas yield three times the harvest of the older Gros Michel type, Cavendish bananas are more difficult to harvest and transport. Cavendish bananas...

important example of monoculture increasing infection is in bananas. The Gros Michel variety of bananas were wiped out by a fungus (commonly known as Panama...

Certain hybrids of the Gros Michel banana Journal of Genetics 26: 291-312 Cheesman, E.E. 1947 Classification of the bananas. II. The genus Musa L. Kew...

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zone, a 1,000-hectare (2,500-acre) banana plantation in Nord-Est. The intent of this project was to export bananas to Germany for the first time since...

once dominant Gros Michel cultivar. A more recent strain also affects the Cavendish cultivars which commercially replaced Gros Michel. It is considered...

to eight and nine hands, a shift that favored varieties such as the Gros Michel that tended to produce high bunch counts when grown under favorable agroecological...

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"made in Cameroon" fait fureur". www.cameroonvoice.com. 29 October 2012. Gros, Jean-Germain (July 1995). "The Hard Lessons of Cameroon". Journal of Democracy...

insulting a policeman, when the policeman was charged with assaulting Belmondo. Banana Peel (1963), with Jeanne Moreau, was a popular comedy. Even more successful...

belle, vous avez l'air fortes, vous avez l'Herpes! Randez fier notre pays! Gros bisous, Bottoks" ("You've got beauty, you've got strength, you've got herpes...