Other Plant Disease — Colombia
Colombia has declared a national state of emergency following confirmation that a dreaded fungus has appeared in the country’s banana plantations, making this the 1st time Fusarium wilt tropical race 4 (TR4) has appeared in Latin America. The finding has put the whole region on alert. In 2015, Randy Ploetz, University of Florida, had said that it was possible it was already there. Wageningen University [& Research, WUR] in the Netherlands used molecular diagnostics to confirm TR4 in
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