According to the team, the discovery will help develop banana varieties that are more resistant to Fusarium wilt. While the ...

A major breakthrough could help save the world’s bananas from a devastating disease. Scientists have discovered the exact genetic region in a wild banana that provides resistance to Fusarium wilt ...

Scientists have pinpointed crucial genetic resistance to a fungal disease that threatens the global banana supply in a wild subspecies of the fruit. In a valuable step forward for banana breeding ...

A new research project is set to help safeguard banana crops from Fusarium wilt Tropical Race 4 (TR4) - a soil-borne disease that poses one of the ...

Two Chinese researchers were charged with smuggling a fungus classified “as a potential agroterrorism weapon” that could decimate crops and impact human health into the US last summer in a wad of ...

88% of nation's strawberries are grown in California Fusarium wilt is one of the most common reasons for strawberry crop loss and death Disease has spread quickly after fumigant methyl bromide was ...

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