The bananas in your supermarket and that you eat for breakfast are facing functional extinction due to the disease Fusarium wilt of banana (FWB), caused by a fungal pathogen called Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense (Foc) tropical race 4 (TR4).
  • The_v@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Bananas are clonally propagated. The pathogen is inside the vascular tissue. No way to get rid of it from plants once infected.

    Fusariums have developed resistance to many fungicides. They keep becoming resistant to more.