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inkcube · 01-05-2008, 08:09 PM

i should add this about Panama disease:

four races of the Panama disease fungus (F. oxysporum f. sp. cubense) have been described - only 3 affect banana, race 3 is a pathogen of heliconia.

-race 1 is what caused the epidemics on Gros Michel, it also affects the cultivars ‘Maqueño,’ ‘Silk,’ ‘Pome,’ ‘Pisang Awak,’ and the hybrid ‘I.C.2.’ but not Cavendish bananas.

-race 2 affects cooking bananas, such as ‘Bluggoe,’ 'Blue Java', and some tetraploids produced through breeding.

-race 4 is considered most destructive since it infects race 1 and race 2 susceptible clones as well as the Cavendish cultivars, basically it care infect nearly all varieties of bananas.

01-05-2008, 08:09 PM	#13 (permalink)
inkcube retired GMO maestro Location: traveling the world Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 121 BananaBucks : 1,902 Feedback: 0 / 0% Said "Thanks" 6 Times Was Thanked 95 Times in 42 Posts Said "Welcome to Bananas" 0 Times	Re: Interview- Dan Koeppel of "Banana" on KCRW i should add this about Panama disease: four races of the Panama disease fungus (F. oxysporum f. sp. cubense) have been described - only 3 affect banana, race 3 is a pathogen of heliconia. -race 1 is what caused the epidemics on Gros Michel, it also affects the cultivars ‘Maqueño,’ ‘Silk,’ ‘Pome,’ ‘Pisang Awak,’ and the hybrid ‘I.C.2.’ but not Cavendish bananas. -race 2 affects cooking bananas, such as ‘Bluggoe,’ 'Blue Java', and some tetraploids produced through breeding. -race 4 is considered most destructive since it infects race 1 and race 2 susceptible clones as well as the Cavendish cultivars, basically it care infect nearly all varieties of bananas. Last edited by inkcube : 01-05-2008 at 08:24 PM.