This article is a list of diseases of banana

Banana

Banana is the common name for herbaceous plants of the genus Musa and for the fruit they produce. Bananas come in a variety of sizes and colors when ripe, including yellow, purple, and red....

s and plantain

Plantain

Plantain is the common name for herbaceous plants of the genus Musa. The fruit they produce is generally used for cooking, in contrast to the soft, sweet banana...

s (Musa spp.).

Bacterial diseases

Bacterial diseases
Bacterial wilt	Pseudomonas solanacearum (race 1)
Blood disease	Pseudomonas Pseudomonas Pseudomonas is a genus of gammaproteobacteria, belonging to the family Pseudomonadaceae containing 191 validly described species.Recently, 16S rRNA sequence analysis has redefined the taxonomy of many bacterial species. As a result, the genus Pseudomonas includes strains formerly classified in the...  spp.
Bugtok	Pseudomonas solanacearum (race 2)
Finger tip rot (gumming)	Pseudomonas Pseudomonas Pseudomonas is a genus of gammaproteobacteria, belonging to the family Pseudomonadaceae containing 191 validly described species.Recently, 16S rRNA sequence analysis has redefined the taxonomy of many bacterial species. As a result, the genus Pseudomonas includes strains formerly classified in the...  spp.
Rhizome rot	Erwinia carotovora Erwinia carotovora Pectobacterium carotovorum is a bacterium of the family Enterobacteriaceae, which is a plant pathogen with a diverse host range. It causes soft rot and blackleg of potato and vegetables as well as slime flux on many different tree species.... Erwinia chrysanthemi
Javanese vasular wilt	Pseudomonas Pseudomonas Pseudomonas is a genus of gammaproteobacteria, belonging to the family Pseudomonadaceae containing 191 validly described species.Recently, 16S rRNA sequence analysis has redefined the taxonomy of many bacterial species. As a result, the genus Pseudomonas includes strains formerly classified in the...  spp.
Xanthomonas wilt (BXW) Xanthomonas wilt (BXW) Xanthomonas Wilt, or banana bacterial wilt or enset wilt is a bacterial disease caused by the Xanthomonas campestris pv. musacearum. This is one of the most devasting disease of banana in Africa that infects all types of banana cultivars.... , Banana bacterial wilt, enset wilt	Xanthomonas campestris Xanthomonas campestris Xanthomonas campestris is a bacterial species that causes a variety of plant diseases. Available from the NCPPB,and other international Culture collections such as ICMP, ATCC, and LMG in a purified form, it is used in the commercial production of a high-molecular-weight polysaccharide - xanthan...  pv. musacearum

Fungal diseases

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|Anthracnose
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Colletotrichum musae

Colletotrichum musae

Colletotrichum musae is a plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

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|Armillaria corn rot
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Armillaria mellea

Armillaria mellea

Armillaria mellea is a plant pathogen and a species of Honey fungus. It causes Armillaria root rot in many plant species. The mushrooms are edible but some people may be intolerant to them. The fungus produces mushrooms around the base of trees it has infected...

Armillaria tabescens

Armillaria tabescens

Armillaria tabescens is a species of fungus in the Physalacriaceae family of mushroom. It is a plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

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|Black cross
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Phyllachora musicola

Phyllachora musicola

Phyllachora musicola is a plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

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|Black leaf streak (black sigatoka)
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Mycosphaerella fijiensis

Paracercospora fijiensis [anamorph]
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|Black root rot
||Rosellinia bunodes

Rosellinia bunodes

Rosellinia bunodes is a plant pathogen.- External links :**...

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|Brown blotch
||Pestalotiopsis leprogena

Pestalotiopsis leprogena

Pestalotiopsis leprogena is a plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

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|Brown spot
||Cercospora hayi

Cercospora hayi

Cercospora hayi is a fungal plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

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|Ceratocystis fruit rot
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Ceratocystis paradoxa

Ceratocystis paradoxa

Ceratocystis paradoxa is a plant pathogen able to cause disease in many species.- External links :* *...

Chalara paradoxa [anamorph]
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|Cigar-end
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Verticillium theobromae

Verticillium theobromae

Verticillium theobromae is a plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

Trachysphaera fructigena

Trachysphaera fructigena

Trachysphaera fructigena is a plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

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|Cladosporium speckle
||Cladosporium musae

Cladosporium musae

Cladosporium musae is a fungal plant pathogen that causes Cladosporium speckle on banana.- External links :* *...

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|Corm dry rot
||Junghuhnia vincta
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|Cordana leaf spot
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Cordana johnstonii

Cordana johnstonii

Cordana johnstonii is an ascomycete fungus that is a plant pathogen. It produces cordana leaf spot on bananas.- External links :**...

Cordana musae

Cordana musae

Cordana musae is an ascomycete fungus that is a plant pathogen. It produces cordana leaf spot on bananas.- External links :* *...

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|Crown rot
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Fusarium pallidoroseum

Fusarium pallidoroseum

Fusarium pallidoroseum is a fungal plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

Colletotrichum musae

Colletotrichum musae

Colletotrichum musae is a plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

Verticillium theobromae

Verticillium theobromae

Verticillium theobromae is a plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

Fusarium

Fusarium

Fusarium is a large genus of filamentous fungi widely distributed in soil and in association with plants. Most species are harmless saprobes, and are relatively abundant members of the soil microbial community. Some species produce mycotoxins in cereal crops that can affect human and animal health...

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Acremonium

Acremonium

Acremonium is a genus of Fungi in the Hypocreaceae family; it was previously known as "Cephalosporium".-Description:Acremonium species are usually slow growing and are initially compact and moist. Acremonium hyphae are fine and hyaline and produce mostly simple phialides. Their conidia are usually...

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|Cylindrocladium root rot
||Cylindrocladium

Cylindrocladium

Cylindrocladium is a genus of ascomycete fungi in the family Nectriaceae. Many species within this genus are synonymous with the genus Calonectria.-Species:*Cylindrocladium bambusae*Cylindrocladium buxicola*Cylindrocladium clavatum...

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|Damping-off
||Deightoniella torulosa

Deightoniella torulosa

Deightoniella torulosa is an ascomycete fungus that is a plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

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|Deightoniella fruit speckle, leaf spot and tip rot
||Deightoniella torulosa

Deightoniella torulosa

Deightoniella torulosa is an ascomycete fungus that is a plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

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|Diamond spot
||Cercospora hayi

Cercospora hayi

Cercospora hayi is a fungal plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

Fusarium

Fusarium

Fusarium is a large genus of filamentous fungi widely distributed in soil and in association with plants. Most species are harmless saprobes, and are relatively abundant members of the soil microbial community. Some species produce mycotoxins in cereal crops that can affect human and animal health...

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|Dwarf Cavendish tip rot
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Nattrassia mangiferae

Nattrassia mangiferae

Neofusicoccum mangiferae is an anamorphic species of fungus in Ascomycota. It is a plant pathogen. Originally named Dothiorella mangiferae by Hans and Paul Sydow in 1916, it was given its current name in 2006 and was previously in the family Nattrassia.- External links :* *...

 
Hendersonula toruloidea
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|Eyespot
||Drechslera gigantea

Drechslera gigantea

Drechslera gigantea is a plant pathogen that causes eyespot disease on many host plants.- External links :* *...

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|Fruit freckle (freckle)
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Guignardia musae

Guignardia musae

Guignardia musae is a plant pathogen that causes Freckle of banana a disease that forms water soaked lesions of banana fruit and is spread by rain splash.- External links :* *...

Phyllosticta musarum [anamorph]
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|Fruit rot
||Botryosphaeria ribis

Botryosphaeria ribis

Botryosphaeria ribis is a plant pathogen that infects many trees causing cankers, dieback and death.- External links :**...

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|Fungal root-rot
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Fusarium solani

Nectria haematococca [teleomorph]

Fusarium oxysporum

Fusarium oxysporum

Fusarium oxysporum Schlecht. as emended by Snyder and Hansen comprises all the species, varieties and forms recognized by Wollenweber and Reinking within an infrageneric grouping called section Elegans...

Rhizoctonia

Rhizoctonia

Rhizoctonia is a genus of anamorphic fungi in the order Cantharellales. Species do not produce spores, but are composed of hyphae and sclerotia and are asexual states of fungi in the genus Thanatephorus. Rhizoctonia species are saprotrophic, but are also facultative plant pathogens, causing...

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|Fungal scald
||Colletotrichum musae

Colletotrichum musae

Colletotrichum musae is a plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

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|Fusarium wilt (Panama disease)
||Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense

Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense

Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense is a fungal plant pathogen that causes Panama disease of banana , also known as fusarium wilt of banana.-Overview:...

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|Leaf rust
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Uredo musae

Uredo musae

Uredo musae is a fungus that is a plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

Uromyces musae

Uromyces musae

Uromyces musae is a plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

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|Leaf speckle
||Acrodontium simplex

Acrodontium simplex

Acrodontium simplex is an ascomycete fungus that is a plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

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|Leaf spot
||Curvularia eragrostidis
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|Leaf spot
||Drechslera musae-sapientum
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|Leaf spot
||Leptosphaeria musarum

Leptosphaeria musarum

Leptosphaeria musarum is a plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

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|Leaf spot
||Pestalotiopsis disseminata

Pestalotiopsis disseminata

Pestalotiopsis disseminata is a plant pathogen. It is a fungus.- External links :* *...

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|Main stalk rot
||Ceratocystis paradoxa

Ceratocystis paradoxa

Ceratocystis paradoxa is a plant pathogen able to cause disease in many species.- External links :* *...

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|Malayan leaf spot
||Haplobasidion musae

Haplobasidion musae

Haplobasidion musae is an ascomycete fungus that is a plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

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|Marasmiellus rot
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Marasmiellus inoderma

Marasmiellus inoderma

Marasmiellus inoderma is a fungal plant pathogen that causes Marasmiellus rot on banana and basal rot of Golden shower orchid.- External links :* *...

 
Marasmius semiustus

Marasmius semiustus

Marasmius semiustus is a plant pathogen responsible for banana plant disease commonly found in the West Indies. The only known remedy is the removal and burning of diseased plants.This fungus is also found in Malaysia, Hawaii, Taiwan, and Costa Rica....

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|Moko
||Pseudomonas solanacearum (race 2)
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|Peduncle rot
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Lasiodiplodia theobromae

Lasiodiplodia theobromae

Lasiodiplodia theobromae is a plant pathogen with a very wide host range. It causes rotting and dieback in most species it infects. On rare occasions it has been found to cause Fungal keratitis. It is a common post harvest fungus disease of citrus known as stem-end rot.- External links :* *...

Fusarium pallidoroseum

Fusarium pallidoroseum

Fusarium pallidoroseum is a fungal plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

Fusarium oxysporum

Fusarium oxysporum

Fusarium oxysporum Schlecht. as emended by Snyder and Hansen comprises all the species, varieties and forms recognized by Wollenweber and Reinking within an infrageneric grouping called section Elegans...

Verticillium theobromae

Verticillium theobromae

Verticillium theobromae is a plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

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|Pestalotiopsis leaf spot
||Pestalotiopsis palmarum

Pestalotiopsis palmarum

Pestalotiopsis palmarum is a plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

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|Phaeoseptoria leaf spot
||Phaeoseptoria musae

Phaeoseptoria musae

Phaeoseptoria musae is a plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

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|Pitting
||Pyricularia grisea
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|Pseudostem heart rot
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Fusarium moniliforme

Gibberella fujikuroi

Gibberella fujikuroi

Gibberella fujikuroi is a fungal plant pathogen. It causes bakanae disease in rice seedlings, by overloading them with the phytohormone gibberellin as its own metabolic byproduct.- External links :* * *...

 [teleomorph]
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|Root & rhizome rot
||Cylindrocarpon musae

Cylindrocarpon musae

Cylindrocarpon musae is a fungal plant pathogen that causes root rot in banana.- External links :* *...

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|Sclerotinia fruit rot
||Sclerotinia sclerotiorum

Sclerotinia sclerotiorum

Sclerotinia sclerotiorum is a plant pathogenic fungus and can cause a disease called white mold if conditions are correct. S. sclerotiorum can also be known as cottony rot, watery soft rot, stem rot, drop, crown rot and blossom blight...

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|Septoria leaf spot
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Mycosphaerella eumusae

Mycosphaerella eumusae

Mycosphaerella eumusae is a fungal plant pathogen.-External links:* *...

 [sexual stage]

Septoria eumusae

Septoria eumusae

Septoria eumusae is a fungal plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

 [anamorph]
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|Sheath rot
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Nectria foliicola

Nectria foliicola

Nectria foliicola is a fungal plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

Mycosphaerella musicola

Mycosphaerella musicola

Mycosphaerella musicola is a fungal plant pathogen, which is the causal agent of Yellow Sigatoka leaf spot disease on banana plants.-Characteristics:...

Pseudocercospora musae [anamorph]
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|Sooty mold
||Limacinula tenuis

Limacinula tenuis

Limacinula tenuis is a plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

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|Speckle
||Mycosphaerella musae

Mycosphaerella musae

Mycosphaerella musae is a fungal plant pathogen.-External links:* *...

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|Squirter (black end disease)
||Nigrospora sphaerica
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|Stem-end rot
||Colletotrichum musae

Colletotrichum musae

Colletotrichum musae is a plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

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|Trachysphaera finger rot
||Trachysphaera fructigena

Trachysphaera fructigena

Trachysphaera fructigena is a plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

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|Tropical speckle
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Ramichloridium musae

Ramichloridium musae

Ramichloridium musae is an ascomycete fungus that is a plant pathogen.- External links :* *...

 

Viral diseases

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|Bract mosaic
||Banana bract mosaic virus

Banana bract mosaic virus

Banana bract mosaic virus is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Potyviridae.-External links:**...

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|Bunchy top
||Banana bunchy top virus

Banana bunchy top virus

Banana bunchy top virus is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Nanoviridae.-Information:In 2004 Hawaii rediscovered Banana Bunchy top virus in residential areas close to major commercial plantations. It was first discovered in Hawaii in 1989...

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|Mosaic
||Cucumber mosaic virus

Cucumber mosaic virus

Cucumber mosaic virus is a plant pathogenic virus in the family Bromoviridae.It is the type member of the plant virus genus, Cucumovirus. This virus has a worldwide distribution and a very wide host range. In fact it has the reputation of having the widest host range of any known plant virus...

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|Streak
||Banana streak virus

Banana streak virus

Banana streak virus is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Caulimoviridae.-External links:**...

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|Banana mild mosaic
||Banana mild mosaic virus
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|Banana virus X
||Banana virus X
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Nematodes, parasitic

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|Nematode root rot (burrowing nematode)
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Radopholus similis

Radopholus similis

Burrowing nematode or Banana-root nematode is an important parasite of fruit, vegetable, and other crops. It is an especially important pest of bananas and citrus, but it will also attack coconut, avocado, coffee, sugarcane, and assorted other types of grasses and ornamentals. It is a migratory...

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|Root-knot
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Meloidogyne arenaria

Meloidogyne arenaria

Meloidogyne arenaria is a plant pathogenic nematode.- External links :*...

Meloidogyne incognita

Meloidogyne incognita

The Meloidogyne incognita is a nematode, a type of roundworm, in the family Heteroderidae. It is an important plant parasite classified in parasitology as a root-knot nematode, as it prefers to attack the root of its host plant....

Meloidogyne javanica

Meloidogyne javanica

Meloidogyne javanica is a plant pathogenic nematode. It is one of the tropical Root-knot Nematodes and a major agricultural pest in many countries. Meloidogyne javanica reproduces by obligatory mitotic parthenogenesis .- External links :*...

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|Root-lesion
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Pratylenchus coffeae

Pratylenchus coffeae

Pratylenchus coffeae is a plant pathogenic nematode.- External links :*...

Pratylenchus goodeyi

Pratylenchus goodeyi

Pratylenchus goodeyi is a plant pathogenic nematode.- External links :*...

Pratylenchus brachyurus

Pratylenchus brachyurus

Pratylenchus brachyurus is a plant pathogenic nematode.- External links :*...

Pratylenchus reniformia

Pratylenchus reniformia

Pratylenchus reniformia is a plant pathogenic nematode....

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|Spiral nematode root damage
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Helicotylenchus multicinctus

Helicotylenchus multicinctus

Helicotylenchus multicinctus is a plant pathogenic nematode.- External links :*...

Helicotylenchus dihystera

Helicotylenchus dihystera

Helicotylenchus dihystera is a plant pathogenic nematode. It is known to inhabit sugarcane, rice, potatoes, corn, peanut, millet, sorghum, forest trees, and banana.- External links :*...

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Miscellaneous diseases and disorders

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|Alligator skin
||Light abrasions on fruit peel caused by leaves or bracts
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|Blue disease
||Magnesium deficiency
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|Choke
||Low winter temperatures
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|Dwarfism
||Genetic mutation
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|Elephantiasis
||Unknown cause
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|Fruit chimera
||Genetic mutation
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|Fused fingers
||Genetic defect
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|Giantism
||Genetic mutation
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|Heart leaf unfurling disorder
||Unknown cause
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|High mat
||Unknown cause
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|Leaf edge chlorosis
||Unknown cause
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|Maturity bronzing
||Unknown cause
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|Rayadilla
||Zinc deficiency
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|Rosetting
||Nitrogen deficiency
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|Roxana
||Unknown cause
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|Spike leaf
||Low winter temperatures
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|Split peel
||Rapid filling of pulp of fruit
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|Taiwan marginal scorch
||Unknown cause
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|"Segmented Banana"
||Chilling injury to fruit
One of the less common plantain diseases is exostentialis clittellus referred to by most plantain and banana farmers as "segmented banana". This is a result of the peel forming tiny inter-fruit membranes which cause the banana to appear as though it has been sliced before it is peeled. This is generally a result of freezing the fruit, and occurs most commonly in fruit that is sold in large stores or supermarkets.
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|Yellow mat
||Unknown cause
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|Yellow pulp
||Delay in fruit filling, drought, excessive shading, magnesium deficiency, poor nutrition
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|Yellows
||Lack of water
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|Neer Vazhai
||Unknown etiology
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|Kottai Vazhai or seediness in Parthenocarpic Poovan banana
||Unknown etiology, probably due to BSV infection
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