Banana (28 page)

Abaca disease

Abel

Adam

Adam and Eve
(Cranach the Elder)

Adams, Frederick Upham

Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment (Uganda)

Aerial spraying

Africa. (
see also
specific countries)

African plantain

Agriculture, U.S. Department of

Aguilar, Juan Fernando

Aguirre, Fernando

Alexander the Great

Ali al-Masudi

Allen, Frederick Lewis

Alvarez, Jose Manuel

American Civil War

American Company
,
An: The Tragedy of United Fruit
(McCann)

American Financial Group

American Heritage
magazine

American Seal-Kap

Antitrust laws

Aphids

Apples

Arana, Francisco

Arauco Peninsula

Arbenz, Arabella

Arbenz, Jacobo

Arbenz, Marie Cristina Vilanova

Arévalo, Juan José

Asim Agriculture Farm, Pakistan

Atlantic Fruit Company

Australia

Australimusa banana

Avalon Peninsula

Averbach, Bernard

Avocado

Azaleas

Baker, Lorenzo Dow

Bali

Banana
,
The: Its History
,
Cultivation
,
and Place Among Staple Foods
(Reynolds)

Banana chips and peel

Banana companies

Atlantic Fruit

Chiquita

Cuyamel Fruit

Del Monte

Dole

Fyffes

Standard Fruit

United Brands

United Fruit

Vaccaro Brothers

Banana Cultures: Agriculture

Consumption
,
and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States
(Soluri)

Banana Men
,
The
(Langley and Schoonover)

Banana peel

Banana republics

Banana splits, invention of

Banana wine or beer

Bananas. (
see also
Banana companies)

Abaca disease and

from Africa

American consumption of

arrival in Americas

from Asia

beginning of banana industry

Black Sigatoka fungus and

boxed

breeding

Bunchy Top disease and

BXW (banana
Xanthomonas
wilt) and

Cavendish

Colombia banana massacre of

corm of

desert and cooking

early cultivation of

East African Highland

European consumption of

fair-trade

false

fe'i

first farm

in Garden of Eden

genetic heritage of

genetic modification and

genome mapping project

Goldfinger (FHIA01)

Gros Michel

harvesting of

inflorescence of

introduction into America

in Jamaica

Lacatan

leaves of

life cycle of plant

migrant

organic

from Pacific area

Panama disease and

price of

price wars

pseudostem of

refrigerated shipping and

research on

ripening cycle of

roots of

sap of

shape of

shortages of

Sigatoka fungus and

songs about

sucker of

types of

wild

words for

World War II and

Bananas: An American History
(Jenkins)

Bananera, Guatemala

Banda Islands

Bangladesh

Bank of Boston

Barbara
(boat)

Barclay, Arthur

Barclay, Robert

Battle of the Century
,
The
(movie)

Baudin, Nicolas

Bay of Pigs

BBTVD (
see
Bunchy Top disease)

Bell, Alexander Bell

Benedict XV, Pope

Berlanda, Tomás de

Berlin, Irving

Bernays, Edward

Beta-carotene

Bible, the

Biotechnology

Bioversity International

Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala
(Kinzer and Schlesinger)

Black, Eli

Black Sigatoka fungus

Bocas del Toro

Boer War

Bolivia

Bonilla, Manuel

Bonita brand name

Bordeaux mixture

Borge Martínez, Tomás

Borneo

Boston Fruit Company

Bout Rond banana

Bravo, Jaime

Brazil

Brazil nuts

Brazilian Prata

Brown, James K. M.

Bucheli, Marcelo

Buddenhagen, Ivan

Buganda

Bulyanti, Uganda

Bunchy Top disease

Burma (Myanmar)

Burmannicoides
(Calcutta banana)

Burundi

Bush, George H. W.

BXW (banana
Xanthomonas
wilt)

Cabana Banana

Cabbages and Kings
(Henry)

Caffery, Jefferson

Cain

Cambodia

Canada

Canary Islands

Canelas, Antonio

Cantor, Eddie

Cape Race

Carías Andino, Tiburcio

Caribbean Sea

Carrots

Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

Carter, Marina

Cassava

Castillo Armas, Carlos

Castle & Cooke

Castro, Fidel

Cat Ba Island

Cavendish, Peregrine

Cavendish, William

Cavendish banana

Center for Food Safety

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Cereal

Chaplin, Charlie

Chatsworth, Derbyshire

Cheesman, E. E.

Chen, Houbin

Chestnut trees

Child labor

Chile

China

Chinchilla, María

Chiquita

Chiquita theme song

Chlorophyll

Chow, Stephen

Christmas, Lee

Ciénaga, Colombia

Cincinnati Enquirer

Clements, John

Cocaine

Cohan, George M.

Cohn, Irving

Colombia

banana massacre of

Columbia Journalism Review

Columbus, Christopher

Columbus, Ohio

Commodities for Livelihoods program

Conquest of the Tropics
(Adams)

Copper sulfate

Coral Sea

Corm of banana

Correa, Rafael

Costa Rica

Costas, Jimmy

Coupons

Cranach, Lucas the Elder

Crossbreeding

Cuba

Cucumber mosaic virus

Cullather, Nick

Culotta, Ida

Cuyamel Fruit Company

Dale, James

Damasus I, Pope

D'Antoni, Salvador

Dark Ages

Darwin, Charles

Davao, Philippines

Davenport, Iowa

DBCP

DDT

De Langhe, Edmond

Deforestation

Del Monte

DeLorenzo, David

Democratic Republic of Congo

Devonshire, Dukes of

Diamond, Jared

Discover
magazine

Dodo

Dole

Dominican Republic

Dow Chemical

Dulles, Allen

Dulles, John Foster

Dwarf Cavendish banana

Dwarf Parfitt banana

East African Highland banana

East India Company

East Timor

Easter Island (Rapa Nui)

Eastern Sea Frontier

Ecologist

Ecuador

Editor & Publisher

Egypt

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

El Salvador

Elders & Fyffes

Embryo rescue

Esquire
magazine

Estrada Cabrera, Manuel

Ethylene gas

Eumusa banana

Euphrates River

Eve

Fagan, William

Fair-trade bananas

False bananas

Famine

FARC

Federated States of Micronesia

Ferdinand, King of Spain

Figue Baudin banana

Fiji

Flood fallowing

Forbes
magazine

Fort Matamoros, Guatemala

Fortune
magazine

“Frankenfoods,”

Freedom of Information Act

Freud, Sigmund