Results

Of the main research programs: INREF, SPIN & PROMOBANANA

Posters

Is SIX1 an effector in
the Fusarium oxysporum f.sp cubense-banana interaction? 

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Publications

ABOUT FUSARIUM WILT

First Report of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense Tropical Race 4 Associated with Panama Disease of Banana outside Southeast Asia.
García-Bastidas, F., Ordóñez, N., Konkol, J., Al-Qasim, M., Naser, Z., Abdelwali, M., Salem, N., Waalwijk, C., Ploetz, R.C., and Kema, G.H.J.
2013.

Pathogens: Appeal for funds to fight banana blight.
Kema, G. H. J., Weise, S.
2013 

The end of the banana.
Kema, G. H. J.
2014

First report of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense tropical race 4 causing Panama disease in Cavendish bananas in Pakistan and Lebanon.
Ordóñez, N., García, F.A., Laghari, H., Akkary, M., Harfouche, E.M., Al Awar, B.N., Kema, G.H.J.
2015

Worse comes to worst: Bananas and Panama disease – when plant and pathogen clones meet. PLoS Pathogens, DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005197.
Ordonez Román, N.I., Seidl, M.F., Waalwijk, C., Drenth, A., Kilian, A., Thomma, B.P.H.J., Ploetz, R.C., and Kema, G.H.J.
2015. 

Impact of diseases on export and smallholder production of banana. Annu. Rev. Phytopathol. 53:269-288.
Ploetz, R.C., Kema, G.H.J., and Ma, L.J.
2015. 

First report of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense Tropical Race 4 associated with Panama Disease of banana outside Southeast Asia. Plant Dis. 98: 694.
García-Bastidas, F., Ordóñez, N., Konkol, J., Al-Qasim, M., Naser, Z., Abdelwali, M., Salem, N., Waalwijk, C., Ploetz, R.C., and Kema, G.H.J.
2014. 

The banana (Musa acuminata) genome and the evolution of monocotyledonous plants. Nature 488: 213-219.
D’Hont, A., Denoeud, F., Aury, J-M., Baurens, F-C., Carreel, F., Garsmeur, O., Noel, B., Bocs, S., Droc, G., Rouard, M., Da Silva, C., Jabbari, K., Cardi, C., Poulain, J., Souquet, M., Labadie, K., Jourda, C., Lengellé, J., Rodier-Goud, M., Alberti, A., Bernard, M., Correa, M., Ayyampalayam, S., Mckain, M.R., Leebens-Mack, J., Burgess, D., Freeling, M., Mbéguié A Mbéguié, D., Chabannes, M., Wicker, T., Panaud, O., Barbosa, J., Hribova, E., Heslop-Harrison, P., Habas, R., Rivallan, R., Francois, P., Poiron, C., Kilian, A., Burthia, D., Jenny, C., Bakry, F., Brown, S., Guignon, V., Kema, G.H.J., Dita, M., Waalwijk, C., Joseph, S., Dievart, A., Jaillon, O., Leclercq, J., Argout, X., Lyons, E., Almeida, A., Jeridi, M., Dolezel, J., Roux, N., Risterucci, A-M., Weissenbach, J., Ruiz, M., Glaszmann, J-C., Quétier, F., Yahiaoui, N., and Wincker, P.
2012. 

Tropical race 4 of Panama disease in the Middle East. Phytoparasitica (2015) 43:283–293, DOI 10.1007/s12600-015-0470-5
Ploetz R.,  Freeman S., Konkol J., Al-Abed A., Naser Z., Shalan K., Barakat R. and Israeli Y.
2015.

ABOUT BLACK SIGATOKA

Combatting a global threat to a clonal crop: sequencing the banana black Sigatoka pathogen Pseudocercospora fijiensis (synonym Mycosphaerella fijiensis) reveals clues for disease control. PLoS Genet 12(8): e1005876. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1005876.
Arango Isaza, R., Diaz-Trujillo, C., Dhillon, B., Aerts, A., Carlier, J., Crane, C.F., De Jong, T.V., De Vries, I., Dietrich, R., Farmer, A.D., Fortes Fereira, C., Garcia, S., Guzman, M., Lindquist, E.A., Mehrab, R., Quiros, O., Schmutz, J., Shapiro, H., Reynolds, E., Scalliet, G., Souza Jr., M., Stergiopoulos, I., Van der Lee, T.A.J., De Wit, P.J.G.M., Zapater, M.-F., Zwiers, L.-H., Grigoriev, I.V., Goodwin, S.B., and Kema, G.H.J.
2016. 

Defense Gene Expression Associated with responses during the Biotrophic Phase of Mycosphaerella fjiensis Morelet, Infection in Banana. Plant Disease 100:1170-1175.
Rodríguez-Cabal, H.E., Rodríguez, E., Morales, J.G., Kema, G.H.J., Arango, R.E.
2016.

Positive selection and intragenic recombination contribute to high allelic diversity in effector genes of Mycosphaerella fijiensis, causal agent of the black leaf streak disease of banana. Mol. Plant Pathol. 15: 447–460.
Stergiopoulos, I., Cordovez da Cunha, V., Ökmen, B., Beenen, H.G., Kema, G.H.J., and De Wit, P.J.G.M.
2013.  

On-line results of germplasm TR4 screening