{"id":2953,"date":"2019-10-29T07:02:58","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T07:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusariumwilt.org\/?p=2953"},"modified":"2019-10-29T07:09:32","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T07:09:32","slug":"new-field-test-detects-banana-fungus-tr4-faster-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusariumwilt.org\/index.php\/en\/2019\/10\/29\/new-field-test-detects-banana-fungus-tr4-faster-than-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"New field test detects banana fungus TR4 faster than ever"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A field&nbsp;test that is faster and more practical than laboratory tests for detecting Tropical Race 4 (TR4) \u2013 the Fusarium strain that causes the much-feared Panama disease in bananas has been developed by&nbsp;researchers from Wageningen University &amp; Research. This so-called LAMP test (from Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification assay) allows banana farmers and authorities to take immediate measures once suspect plants test positive for the fungus in order to prevent further spreading. The LAMP test was developed by a research team led by professor Gert Kema (WUR).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the article to find out more about the test: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wur.nl\/en\/news-wur\/Show\/New-field-test-detects-banana-fungus-TR4-faster-than-ever.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/www.wur.nl\/en\/news-wur\/Show\/New-field-test-detects-banana-fungus-TR4-faster-than-ever.htm (opens in a new tab)\">https:\/\/www.wur.nl\/en\/news-wur\/Show\/New-field-test-detects-banana-fungus-TR4-faster-than-ever.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How does the LAMP test work? Check out the video<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Panama disease diagnostic in banana\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-C0XN5SyDi0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\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>A field&nbsp;test that is faster and more practical than laboratory tests for detecting Tropical Race 4 (TR4) \u2013 the Fusarium strain that causes the much-feared Panama disease in bananas has been developed by&nbsp;researchers from Wageningen University &amp; Research. This so-called LAMP test (from Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification assay) allows banana farmers and authorities to take immediate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2955,"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":85,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,31,32],"tags":[563,621,619,251,607,625,541,623],"class_list":["post-2953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publications","category-studies","category-video","tag-bananas","tag-faster-than-ever","tag-field-test-tr4","tag-fusarium-wilt","tag-gert-kema","tag-lamp-test","tag-panama-disease","tag-wur"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusariumwilt.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953","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=2953"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fusariumwilt.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2958,"href":"https:\/\/fusariumwilt.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953\/revisions\/2958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusariumwilt.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusariumwilt.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusariumwilt.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusariumwilt.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}