Elephantiasis -- Colombia
[In] Colombia, banana is severely affected by elephantiasis disease (BED), first reported in 1911 in Suriname. BED has significantly lowered both yield and commercial value of the cultivars 'Gros Michel' (AAA) and 'Dominico Harton' (AAB). Yield reductions of 9 to 71.6 per cent have been reported in the Department of Valle del Cauca during 2016 and 2017.
BED causes an overgrowth of the pseudostem-rhizome junction generating longitudinal and transverse ruptures that lead to the collapse of
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?5687320&promed&0
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