All bananas you find in U.S. grocery stores are of the same variety, the Cavendish.
In 1992, the disease mutated into a form that is able to attack the Cavendish variety.
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It was, by all accounts, a superior-tasting fruit to today's supermarket stocks of the Cavendish variety.
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At one time in the 1930s eight Nobel prizewinners were working in the Cavendish, then the world's leading centre for experimental nuclear physics.
Mr Roper, who retired from the police force in 1992, has been a school governor at four schools and works with the Cavendish community in Birkenhead.
Professor Perutz undertook his work at the Cavendish Laboratories in Cambridge, UK, before moving to the newly set up Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), which he chaired until 1979.
It was shown by Maurice Wilkins of King's College to James Watson at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, who said "my mouth fell open and my pulse began to race".
Athene Donald, Professor of Experimental Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, is one of only five exceptional female scientists from around the globe to receive an award this year.
In every stage win, including the final Sunday dash along the Champs Elysees, Cavendish was paced by teammate George Hincapie, who would sprint to the lead with a kilometer to go and shield Cavendish from the wind.
After the race, Cavendish praised the remarkable work put in by his Columbia team-mates.
In 1995 Cambridge appointed him to the prestigious Cavendish professorship, whose list of past incumbents includes James Maxwell (1831-79), who created the theory of electromagnetic waves.
An experiment under way at the University of Washington, led by Eric Adelberger, tests this idea using the world's most sensitive torsion balance, a souped-up version of the kit Henry Cavendish, an English physicist, used to measure gravity directly for the first time in the late 18th century.
The fastest man on the planet, Cavendish could surpass Chris Boardman's British record for professional race wins during the Tour.
There was a surprising lack of stick-on sideburns, but the huge support for Bradley Wiggins and Mark Cavendish as the Tour of Britain began in Suffolk surprised no-one.
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In the two sprint finishes so far, Cavendish has missed the final lead-out that Matt Renshaw provided in France, until the Australian was ejected from the race for dangerous behaviour.
The village of Cavendish peaked at 32.4C (90.3F), Charsfield recorded 31.4C (88.5F) and Santon Downham basked in 31.3C (88.3F).
Despite the British team having control of the peloton throughout the race, they struggled to close the gap on the lead group and Cavendish was nowhere in sight as Vinokourov out sprinted Uran to the finish line in front of Buckingham Palace.
Armitstead's performance was a welcome boost for home fans after the bitter disappointment of Mark Cavendish's failure to win the men's road race Saturday.
"I think Bradley will go to the Olympics with the aim of repaying Mark Cavendish for his work and sacrifice in the quest for the yellow jersey, " Robert Millar, who finished fourth and was named King of the Mountains in the 1984 Tour, told CNN.
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The sun came out, briefly and the chat amongst the crowd was that British athletes were doing an "amazing" job at the Games, but it was a disappointment to see Mark Cavendish beaten in the road race, Paula pull out of the marathon, Yamauchi pull up here.
Thursday's 184.5km stage 11 is one for the sprinters, so Cavendish - twice a winner on this year's Tour already - should be back in contention.
On Saturday Wiggins and his British teammates failed to escort sprinter Mark Cavendish to the line for a presumed gold medal, and it was treated like a civic letdown.
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Mark Cavendish from the Isle of Man and Welsh rider Geraint Thomas both made waves in this year's Tour de France and will be looking to cap excellent seasons with the Commonwealth title.
Wiggins, a four-time Olympic gold medallist and Tour de France winner, and Cavendish, the reigning world road race champion and BBC Sports Personality of the Year, had a magnetic appeal as thousands of spectators turned out at Ipswich Waterfront.
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The HTC-Highroad rider, a team-mate of Mark Cavendish, proved too strong for the 2008 winner Fabian Cancellara and Philippe Gilbert.
And Cavendish showed all the class that saw him win four stages in last year's Tour de France to burst from the pack and take victory.
"We are concerned that children and their parents could be subject to unfair pressure to purchase when they are playing games they thought were free, but which can actually run up substantial costs, " said Cavendish Elithorn, the OFT's senior director for goods and consumer.
When Cavendish finally burst to the lead with scant meters to go, he was fresh.
Cavendish was first across the line as his nine-man team covered the 13km course in 14 minutes six seconds.
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