Increasing banana diversity In tracing the global spread of this new version of Fusarium oxysporum, we realized that a major ...

Did you know that the bananas you eat today are not the same type as the ones people were eating a few generations ago? The banana you might have had with your breakfast today is a variety called ...

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If bananas being wiped out from a fungal infection ... 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 ...

“It might give off the false impression that there’s a dead body, emerging from the leaf litter, but these Xylaria fungi are ...

Even with an avenue for controlling the disease, crop diversity could further reduce the fungus' virulence. Bananas are being infected by a disease called Fusarium wilt of banana (FWB), caused by ...

Fusarium wilt poses a significant threat to global agriculture, particularly affecting the banana industry, where it is ...

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which was wiped out by a disease called Fusarium wilt of banana, or FWB. FWB of Gros Michel was caused by Fusarium oxysporum race 1, a fungal pathogen that affects bananas. This fungal infection kills ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Li-Jun Ma, UMass Amherst (THE CONVERSATION) Did you know that the bananas you eat ...