He says bunchy top disease and banana bacterial wilt can both affect entire plantations.

VOA: special.2009.09.21

Banana bacterial wilt was first reported in Ethiopia in the late nineteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.09.21

A top banana is the leading person in a comedy show.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

Two separate diseases are destroying banana and plantain crops in Africa.

VOA: special.2009.09.21

The object was shaped like a yellow fruit: the banana.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

Top banana still is used mainly in show business.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

And so on. Why a banana?

VOA: special.2009.11.29

The expression is,top banana.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

The next is second banana.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

You might not like an orange by itself, you might not like a banana by itself, but if you combine different fruits together, you might be able to actually produce something which is consumable by the whole society."

VOA: special.2009.10.02

"Are you liking your banana?." Andy Muscat says his family does its best to support products that help producers.

VOA: standard.2010.03.10