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fusarium wilt (Page 3)

AUSTRALIA: GM banana shows promise against deadly fungus strain

2017-11-17
By: TFNet News Compilation
On: November 17, 2017
In: Fruits News
With: 0 Comments

A field trial in Australia has shown that genetically modified banana trees can resist the deadly fungus that causes Panama disease, which has devastated banana crops in Asia, Africa, and Australia and is a major threat for banana growers in the Americas. The transgenic plants might reach some farmers inContinue Reading

AUSTRALIA: Genetic modification may save USD12bn banana industry

2017-11-15
By: TFNet News Compilation
On: November 15, 2017
In: Fruits News
With: 0 Comments

A multibillion-dollar banana industry at risk of a deadly disease could be saved by genetic modification that created a line of bananas resistant to Fusarium wilt tropical race 4, also known as Panama disease. Researchers at Queensland University of Technology genetically modified Cavendish bananas using a gene found in aContinue Reading

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