Clone Wars: How Fusarium Fungi Control the Banana Industry

Submitted by Aspergillus Administrator on 24 June 2021

How does the Gros Michel banana taste? Unfortunately, most people have missed the opportunity to form an opinion: the fungus Fusarium oxysporum rendered this cultivar commercially extinct in the 1950s by causing a fatal disease called Fusarium wilt or “Panama disease.”

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