Other Plant Disease — India
Grand Nain banana, a variety under Cavendish cultivar, is being affected with a mutated strain of TR1 fungus _Fusarium oxysporum_. “Grand Nain is known to be resistant to TR1 and TR2 and susceptible to TR4. But these bananas are also prone to a newly found mutated strain of TR1,” said Dr R Thangavelu, National Research Centre for Banana (NRCB).
In 2009, Thangavelu 1st showed the TR1 can also affect the Cavendish cultivar [ProMED-mail post http://promedmail.org/post/20101223.4510 & link
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