There’s no cure for a fungal disease that could potentially wipe out much of global banana production. Widespread adoption of cement paths, disinfection stations, and production strategies could ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fungal diseases severely devastated the banana industry once in history and it could soon happen again if we do not resolve the cause of these problems. Plant scientists, including us, are working ...

Bananas are a vital crop globally, but their yields are threatened by various diseases, particularly banana fusarium wilt ...

A national meeting is being held to decide the fate of the country’s multi million dollar banana industry as growing cases of the fungal disease known as Banana Freckle emerge in the NT.

Hundreds of millions of dollars in banana exports from Colombia are at risk due to a fungal disease best known as Tropical Race 4 (TR4). First detected in Asia in the 1990s, the Fusarium fungus ...