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Towards Resistant Dessert Banana Varieties For Sustainability
What if the arrival of TR4 Fusarium Wilt in 2019 in Latin America was the starting point of a reinvention of the dessert banana sector? The industries have now realised that they were threatened by a danger that was unimaginable a few months before. The incurable nature of this disease, its inexorable extension (already twenty spots spread across the globe) and the absence of satisfactory varietal solutions are forcing a change of model. The current “all-Cavendish” model (a varietal group highly sensitive to the disease) has run out of steam. A varietal overhaul toward greater diversity is required.
