Thursday, 5 April 2018

PRO/PL> Panama disease TR4, banana - Myanmar: 1st rep

Other Plant Disease -- Myanmar
The feared Tropical race 4 [TR4] of the _Fusarium_ fungus, which causes the so-called Panama disease in Cavendish bananas, has now also been found in Myanmar. It was previously found in Viet Nam and Laos [ProMED-mail post http://bit.ly/2uNk69s].
Genome research has [also] found connections between TR4 in various countries. Even more important is that it could be confirmed that there is a connection between the appearance of TR4 in Pakistan and the Philippines on one

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?5727838&promed&0

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