Panelists from China, India, and Vietnam speak about the threat the fungal disease poses on each country and the best ...

Bananas are being infected by a disease called Fusarium wilt of banana (FWB), caused by a fungal pathogen called Fusarium oxysporum TR4. This is not the first time a banana species has succumbed ...

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 ...

For the last 10 years, Ma has been studying Fusarium oxysporum, which is the driving force behind the disease Fusarium wilt of banana. Ma characterized the fungal pathogen as a “species complex” that ...

News broke late last week that a fungal disease that kills Cavendish banana plants has been detected in Latin America for the first time. A strain of the Fusarium fungus, which causes so-called ...

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 ...

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

"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.