PRO/PL> Undiagnosed disease, plantain – India: (KL)

Other Plant Disease — India
An unidentified disease affected plantain bananas in Wayanad [district]; [it] caused the 3-month-old saplings to break and collapse. The Agriculture Department officials inspected the site.

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[A number of banana (_Musa_ species and hybrids) pathogens have been reported from the region, including, for example, _Banana bunchy top virus_, as well as the fungal diseases of black and yellow sigatoka (_Mycosphaerella_ species) and Panama disease (_Fusarium