Fungal diseases, including the dreaded Fusarium wilt, wiped out half of banana plantations tilled by smallholder farmers in the Philippines, according to the Department of Agriculture (DA).

Black leaf streak disease is a debilitating infection that for the last 50 years has been attacking plantain and banana plants, delaying harvest and affecting fruit quality by impeding leaf ...

crop diversity could further reduce the fungus' virulence. Bananas are being infected by a disease called Fusarium wilt of banana (FWB), caused by a fungal pathogen called Fusarium oxysporum TR4.

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 ...

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 ...

The Cavendish, the most widely exported banana and probably the variety in your kitchen, is in trouble. Deadly fungal diseases are attacking the plants, threatening the fruit with extinction.

The innovations will open up the cut fruit market, cut food waste, unlock new export markets, and reduce shipping costs, claims Tropic.

Also known as Panama Disease, it is a fungus that has been rampaging through banana farms for the past 30 years. But within the last decade the epidemic has suddenly accelerated, spreading from ...

Also known as Panama Disease, it is a fungus that has been rampaging through banana farms for the past 30 years. But within the last decade the epidemic has suddenly accelerated, spreading from ...

Mysuru: The famed Nanjangud Rasabale variety, which became scarce due to a fungal disease, is thriving again, thanks to ...