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Banana Xanthomonas Wilt (BXW), or banana bacterial wilt (BBW) or enset wilt is a bacterial disease caused by Xanthomonas vasicola pv. musacearum. [1] After being originally identified on a close relative of banana, Ensete ventricosum, in Ethiopia in the 1960s, [2] BXW emanated in Uganda in 2001 affecting all types of banana cultivars.
Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense (Pronunciation ⓘ) is a fungal plant pathogen that causes Panama disease of banana (Musa spp.), also known as Fusarium wilt.The fungi and the related disease are responsible for widespread pressure on banana growing regions, destroying the economic viability of several commercially important banana varieties.
Sooty mold Limacinula tenuis: Speckle Mycosphaerella musae: Squirter (black end disease) Nigrospora sphaerica: Stem-end rot Colletotrichum musae: Trachysphaera finger rot Trachysphaera fructigena: Tropical speckle Ramichloridium musae = Veronaea musae = Periconiella musae. Verticillium tip rot Verticillium theobromae: Yellow Sigatoka ...
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The Gros Michel banana was the dominant cultivar of bananas, and Fusarium wilt inflicted enormous costs and forced producers to switch to other, disease-resistant cultivars. Since the 2010s, a new outbreak of Panama disease caused by the strain Tropical Race 4 (TR4) has threatened the production of the Cavendish banana , today's most popular ...
With only five trees reportedly remaining, a Madagascan banana species has been put on an extinction watchlist — and it could affect your supermarket stash.
"Front-load washers are notorious for growing mold and mildew in the washer seal and the detergent drawer, and they smell awful," she explains. "If you have mold in your seals, glove up, pour some ...
Commercial banana production in the United States is relatively limited in scale and economic impact. While Americans eat 26 pounds (12 kg) of bananas per person per year, the vast majority of the fruit is imported from other countries, chiefly Central and South America, where the US has previously occupied areas containing banana plantations, and controlled the importation of bananas via ...