A disease that ravages banana crops has made its ... officials have uprooted plants where the fungus has been detected and covered the soil with black plastic sheets that raise the temperatures ...

“The disease is a fungus,” Dan Bebber ... While increasing banana production and global trade have probably facilitated black sigatoka’s establishment and spread, climate change has made ...

A deadly fungus that has decimated banana plantations in southeast Asia ... A devastating and costly fungal leaf disease called Black Sigatoka is also rife in Latin America, and climate change ...

The Cavendish banana, the most commonly grown banana variety worldwide, is especially susceptible to the black Sigatoka fungus. Because Cavendish banana plants are genetically uniform, a disease ...

The fungus is nearly impossible to get out of the soil, Nature notes. The pathogen rots banana plants, turning their tissues into a "putrefying mixture of brown, black, and blood-red" that smells ...

"There's nothing at this point that really keeps the fungus from spreading ... The world banana crop also has been under attack for years from Black Sigatoka disease, a fungal leaf spot disease.

Black leaf streak disease is a debilitating infection that for the last 50 years has been attacking plantain and banana plants ... Mycosphaerella fijiensis, the fungus responsible for black leaf ...

A disease that ravages banana crops has made its ... officials have uprooted plants where the fungus has been detected and covered the soil with black plastic sheets that raise the temperatures ...

a fungus capable of devastating entire plantations, and black sigatoka, a leaf disease that drastically reduces yields. Both diseases have been long-standing threats to the banana industry ...

“It was just black center of banana and I freaked out. I sliced it, cut it open and they all had this mold fungus. Just this really disgusting horrid look inside of them,” she said. Mom finds ...

A few banana trees in a small plantation had dried up, quite suspiciously. Laboratory analysis showed the trees were infected by a fungus––the Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense of the ...

A deadly fungus that has decimated banana plantations in southeast Asia ... A devastating and costly fungal leaf disease called Black Sigatoka is also rife in Latin America, and climate change ...