AUTHOR=Zheng Si-Jun , García-Bastidas Fernando A. , Li Xundong , Zeng Li , Bai Tingting , Xu Shengtao , Yin Kesuo , Li Hongxiang , Fu Gang , Yu Yanchun , Yang Liu , Nguyen Huy Chung , Douangboupha Bounneuang , Khaing Aye Aye , Drenth Andre , Seidl Michael F. , Meijer Harold J. G. , Kema Gert H. J. TITLE=New Geographical Insights of the Latest Expansion of Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense Tropical Race 4 Into the Greater Mekong Subregion JOURNAL=Frontiers in Plant Science VOLUME=9 YEAR=2018 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science/articles/10.3389/fpls.2018.00457 DOI=10.3389/fpls.2018.00457 ISSN=1664-462X ABSTRACT=
Banana is the most popular and most exported fruit and also a major food crop for millions of people around the world. Despite its importance and the presence of serious disease threats, research into this crop is limited. One of those is Panama disease or Fusarium wilt. In the previous century Fusarium wilt wiped out the “Gros Michel” based banana industry in Central America. The epidemic was eventually quenched by planting “Cavendish” bananas. However, 50 years ago the disease recurred, but now on “Cavendish” bananas. Since then the disease has spread across South-East Asia, to the Middle-East and the Indian subcontinent and leaped into Africa. Here, we report the presence of