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The Bananas of Upland East Africa - Gros Michel with Panama Disease

Gros Michel bananas with fusarial wilt, or Panama Disease

Symptoms in Gros Michel include yellowing of the outer leaves and buckling of the petiole

Near Izigo, lakeside, Muleba District, 15 March 1988

The change to this sweet variety was reported as due to high weevil incidence and poor soil fertility

Panama Disease incidence, however, was very high.

©2000 - Brian Taylor CBiol FIBiol FRES
11, Grazingfield, Wilford, Nottingham, NG11 7FN, U.K.

Visiting Academic in the Department of Life Science, University of Nottingham
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