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Management of Fusarium wilt of banana: A review with special reference to tropical race 4

Randy C. Ploetz
- 01 Jul 2015 - 
- Vol. 73, pp 7-15
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Banana (Musa spp.) is an important cash and food crop in the tropics and subtropics, but effective biological, chemical and cultural measures are not available, despite a substantial, positive literature on these topics.
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This article is published in Crop Protection.The article was published on 2015-07-01. It has received 221 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Panama disease & Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense.

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Breeding crops to feed 10 billion.

TL;DR: Development of next-generation crops will be enabled by combining state-of-the-art technologies with speed breeding by using speed breeding to enable plant breeders to keep pace with a changing environment and ever-increasing human population.
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Fusarium Wilt of Banana

TL;DR: An overview of the Panama disease and its causal agent, Fusarium oxysporum f. cubense, is presented in this paper, with an emphasis on tropical race 4 (TR4), a 'Cavendish'-killing variant of the pathogen that has spread dramatically in the Eastern Hemisphere.
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Fusarium wilt of banana: Current knowledge on epidemiology and research needs toward sustainable disease management

TL;DR: The current knowledge on the epidemiology of FW of banana is summarized, highlighting knowledge gaps in pathogen survival and dispersal, factors driving disease intensity, soil and plant microbiome and the dynamics of the disease.
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Genetic diversity targets and indicators in the CBD post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework must be improved

TL;DR: The 196 parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will soon agree to a post-2020 global framework for conserving the three elements of biodiversity (genetic, species, and ecosystem diversity) while ensuring sustainable development and benefit sharing.
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Multiple evolutionary origins of the fungus causing Panama disease of banana: Concordant evidence from nuclear and mitochondrial gene genealogies

TL;DR: Testing whether lineages of the Panama disease pathogen have a monophyletic origin by comparing DNA sequences of nuclear and mitochondrial genes indicates Panama disease of banana is caused by fungi with independent evolutionary origins.
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Plant Diseases: Epidemics and Control

J. E. Van Der Plank
- 01 Oct 1964 - 
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Fusarium oxysporum and its biocontrol

TL;DR: Results showed the great diversity affecting the soil-borne populations of F. oxysporum, with several modes of action contributing to their biocontrol capacity.
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The taxonomy and origins of the cultivated bananas

TL;DR: A taxonomy scoring method is used to classify the edible bananas and to provide evidence on their evolution and the names may be rejected from the nomenclature of the wild bananas.
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