Propose a comprehensive package to control banana wilt with low environmental impact We are proposing the following to local governments in the La Selva region of Peru as a comprehensive package to ...

"The fact that horizontal gene transfers between two different species of Fusarium contributed to the repeated emergence of coffee wilt disease is ... from the roots of a banana tree in central ...

are threatened by a plant-killing disease called fusarium wilt. This disease has already wiped out other banana varieties, ...

A fungal disease called Fusarium wilt or Panama disease nearly wiped out the Gros Michel and brought the global banana export industry to the brink of collapse. A soilborne pathogen was to blame ...

“There was another outbreak of banana wilt,” lead author Yong Zhang said in a statement. “It spread like wildfire from South-East Asia to Africa and Central America.” For the last 10 years, Ma has ...

"The Gros Michel bananas, which were popular in the 1950s, were essentially wiped out by a previous Fusarium outbreak." The Cavendish banana, a disease ... of banana wilt," says Ma.