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 ...
Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense (Foc) is a typical soil-borne fungus that causes Fusarium wilt by infecting the roots and blocking the vascular tissues of host banana, and threatens the global ...
Li-Jun Ma receives funding from United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Hatch grant (MAS00612), National Institute of Food and Agriculture (2022-51181-38448), Joint Genome Institute, Community ...
A fungus that can infect over 100 different plants is devastating the popular fruit. By Laura Baisas Published Aug 16, 2024 8:53 AM EDT Deposit Photos Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 ...
The banana—or at least the fruit as we know it—is facing an existential crisis. A deadly fungus that has decimated banana plantations in southeast Asia for 30 years has finally done what scientists ...
A breakthrough in banana disease resistance was achieved with the identification of novel O-methyltransferases (OMTs) involved in the biosynthesis of phenylphenalenone phytoalexins. These compounds, ...