The reason for the banana bust is a fungus namedFusarium oxysporum f. sp.
Cubense, which causes a condition known either as Panama disease or Fusarium Wilt.
The pathogen infects banana plants, impeding their vascular system and causing the leaves to yellow and die.
For the second time, banana plants around the world are threatened by a fungus.© PDA Studio via Shutterstock
Those old ones, the Gros Michel bananas, are functionally extinct.
But Ma and her colleagues recently discovered some good news.
They found the Cavendish strain,Fusarium oxysporum f.sp.
There has been no word on whether the spread of TR4 has shaken Kirk Cameronsunyieldingfaith in bananas.
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The spread of fungal pathogens in humans and other species are a disaster waiting to happen.
