The banana is an elongated fruit, botanically a berry, produced by large treelike herbaceous plants in the genus Musa. The earliest domestication took place in New Guinea, where Papuan cultivators selected naturally seedless individuals of the wild species Musa banksii; archaeological evidence from the Kuk Swamp site places this cultivation at roughly 10,000 to 6,500 years before present. Most modern edible bananas, including the commercially dominant Cavendish group, descend from Musa acuminata alone or from its hybrids with Musa balbisiana.
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Scientific NameMusa spp., principally derived from M. acuminata and M. balbisiana 1 Domestication RegionNew Guinea (from wild Musa banksii) 1 Domesticated When (Circa)Circa 10,000 to 6,500 years before present (Kuk Swamp site evidence) 1 Era
Era (category) Banana
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Source Banana Bunchy Top Virus (Wikipedia)
Source Black Sigatoka (Wikipedia)
Source Burrowing Nematode (Wikipedia)
Source Dysmicoccus brevipes (Wikipedia)
Source Fusarium Wilt (Wikipedia)
Source Pestalotiopsis palmarum (Wikipedia)
Source Reniform Nematode (Wikipedia)
Source Rosellinia bunodes (Wikipedia)
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Banana bunchy top virus is one of the most economically damaging banana diseases worldwide.
Black Sigatoka is the most damaging foliar disease of banana and plantain.
The burrowing nematode (Radopholus similis) is a major root pathogen of cultivated banana.
This milestone records the domestication event of the banana crop it is directly named for.
Panama disease Tropical Race 4, a fusarium wilt, threatens the Cavendish banana that dominates world export production.
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Most modern edible bananas, including the commercially dominant Cavendish group, descend from Musa acuminata alone or from its hybrids with Musa balbisiana.
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Numerous phytoliths of bananas have been recovered from the Kuk Swamp archaeological site and dated to around 10,000 to 6,500 BP.
View the Source Fusarium Wilt (Wikipedia)
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Tomato, tobacco, legumes, cucurbits, sweet potatoes and banana are a few of the most susceptible plants, but it also infects other herbaceous plants.
Black Sigatoka (Wikipedia)
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Black sigatoka is a leaf-spot disease of banana plants caused by the ascomycete fungus Mycosphaerella fijiensis (Morelet), also known as black leaf streak.
Banana Bunchy Top Virus (Wikipedia)
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BBTV can infect species of the family Musaceae, which includes bananas, plantains, abaca, and more.
Burrowing Nematode (Wikipedia)
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It is an especially important pest of bananas, and it can be found on coconut, avocado, coffee, sugarcane, other grasses, and ornamentals.
Reniform Nematode (Wikipedia)
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It has a wide host range that includes fruit trees, lentil, cotton, pigeon pea, tea, tobacco, soybean, pineapple, banana, okra, coconut, cabbage, sweet potato, alfalfa, corn, asparagus, palm, cucumber, tomato, squash, cassava, radish, eggplant, guava, melon, chickpea, and ginger.
Dysmicoccus brevipes (Wikipedia)
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The species is found primarily on pineapple and other species in the genus Ananas, but also infests citrus trees, cotton, banana, coffee and other plants.
Pestalotiopsis palmarum (Wikipedia)
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Pestalotiopsis palmarum is the causative agent of a fungal disease of bananas, coconut and Date palms .
Rosellinia bunodes (Wikipedia)
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is a plant pathogen infecting several hosts including avocados, bananas, cacao and tea
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