Disease-beating banana
Black sigatoka and Panama disease are the two worst fungal diseases to afflict bananas. But a new variety of banana developed at the Honduran Foundation for Agricultural Research (HFRA) is much hardier than traditional varieties and is resistant to the diseases. Called Goldfinger, it is a short, fat, apple-flavoured banana and is a cross between a wild Asian banana and a Brazilian variety. To control black sigatoka and Panama disease, bananas need regular and expensive applications of antifungal chemicals and, even so, black sigatoka was showing signs of chemical resistance. However, the plants of Goldfinger, as well as resisting the two fungal diseases, are less palatable to insects and to the root-eating nematodes that afflict plantations. Goldfinger has been tested at HFAR`s farms in Northeast Honduras, and on experimental stations in Costa Rica, Colombia, Cameroon, Nigeria and Australia. Seedlings should be available in late 1994. Phil Rowe Fundacion Hondurena de Investigacion Agricola Apartado Postal 2067 San Pedro Sula, HONDURAS
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dig-cgspace-10568-491942016-05-30T17:55:28Z Disease-beating banana Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation Black sigatoka and Panama disease are the two worst fungal diseases to afflict bananas. But a new variety of banana developed at the Honduran Foundation for Agricultural Research (HFRA) is much hardier than traditional varieties and is resistant to the diseases. Called Goldfinger, it is a short, fat, apple-flavoured banana and is a cross between a wild Asian banana and a Brazilian variety. To control black sigatoka and Panama disease, bananas need regular and expensive applications of antifungal chemicals and, even so, black sigatoka was showing signs of chemical resistance. However, the plants of Goldfinger, as well as resisting the two fungal diseases, are less palatable to insects and to the root-eating nematodes that afflict plantations. Goldfinger has been tested at HFAR`s farms in Northeast Honduras, and on experimental stations in Costa Rica, Colombia, Cameroon, Nigeria and Australia. Seedlings should be available in late 1994. Phil Rowe Fundacion Hondurena de Investigacion Agricola Apartado Postal 2067 San Pedro Sula, HONDURAS Black sigatoka and Panama disease are the two worst fungal diseases to afflict bananas. But a new variety of banana developed at the Honduran Foundation for Agricultural Research (HFRA) is much hardier than traditional varieties and is resistant to... 1993 2014-10-17T08:43:18Z 2014-10-17T08:43:18Z News Item CTA. 1993. Disease-beating banana. Spore 46. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands. 1011-0054 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/49194 http://collections.infocollections.org/ukedu/en/d/Jcta46e/ en Spore, Spore 46 Open Access Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation Spore |
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Black sigatoka and Panama disease are the two worst fungal diseases to afflict bananas. But a new variety of banana developed at the Honduran Foundation for Agricultural Research (HFRA) is much hardier than traditional varieties and is resistant to the diseases. Called Goldfinger, it is a short, fat, apple-flavoured banana and is a cross between a wild Asian banana and a Brazilian variety.
To control black sigatoka and Panama disease, bananas need regular and expensive applications of antifungal chemicals and, even so, black sigatoka was showing signs of chemical resistance. However, the plants of Goldfinger, as well as resisting the two fungal diseases, are
less palatable to insects and to the root-eating nematodes that afflict plantations.
Goldfinger has been tested at HFAR`s farms in Northeast Honduras, and on experimental stations in Costa Rica, Colombia, Cameroon, Nigeria and Australia. Seedlings should be available in late 1994.
Phil Rowe
Fundacion Hondurena de Investigacion Agricola
Apartado Postal 2067 San Pedro Sula, HONDURAS |
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