{"id":2931,"date":"2019-08-21T07:27:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T07:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusariumwilt.org\/?p=2931"},"modified":"2019-08-21T07:44:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T07:44:40","slug":"future-of-bananas-in-the-americas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusariumwilt.org\/index.php\/en\/2019\/08\/21\/future-of-bananas-in-the-americas\/","title":{"rendered":"Future of bananas in the Americas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>With the confirmation of the Panama disease\nTropical Race 4 (TR4) in bananas in Latin America, bananas will become scarcer\nand prices will rise. This will mostly impact the people for which the bananas\nare a fundamental source of nutrition. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nanalysis of banana plants and soil, and thereby confirming the presence of the\nTR4 strain in the Columbia was done by a Dutch team, with researchers of\nKeygene, and the University of Utrecht, and Wageningen University &amp;\nResearch<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As there is\nno known fungicide or biocontrol measure that has proven\neffective against TR4, making eradication of the fungus hard or impossible.\nCommercial plantations grow almost exclusively a monoculture, the Cavandish\nbanana variety, which helps the efficiency of the market chain, but leaves it\nvulnerable to diseases. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out\nthe media items below on the confirmation of the Panama disease outbreak: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The article in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"National Geographic (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/environment\/2019\/08\/banana-fungus-latin-america-threatening-future\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Geographic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepacker.com\/article\/banana-industry-staggered-tr4-discovery-now-what\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"interview with Gert Kema (opens in a new tab)\">interview with Gert Kema<\/a> in The Packer video on the outbreak in Latin America<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> in The Packer video on the outbreak in Latin America<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The article in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Science magazine  (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2019\/08\/colombia-confirms-dreaded-fungus-has-hit-its-banana-plantations\" target=\"_blank\">Science magazine<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fusariumwilt.org\/index.php\/en\/news-events\/\">Back to News page\ufeff<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the confirmation of the Panama disease Tropical Race 4 (TR4) in bananas in Latin America, bananas will become scarcer and prices will rise. This will mostly impact the people for which the bananas are a fundamental source of nutrition. The analysis of banana plants and soil, and thereby confirming the presence of the TR4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2932,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,30],"tags":[585,563,251,579,541,569,573,583],"class_list":["post-2931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publications","category-publicity","tag-americas","tag-bananas","tag-fusarium-wilt","tag-latin-america","tag-panama-disease","tag-pandemic","tag-tr4","tag-wageningen-university"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusariumwilt.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusariumwilt.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusariumwilt.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusariumwilt.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusariumwilt.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2931"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fusariumwilt.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2936,"href":"https:\/\/fusariumwilt.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931\/revisions\/2936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusariumwilt.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusariumwilt.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusariumwilt.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusariumwilt.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}