Panama disease tropical race 4 (TR4) has been detected on a sixth commercial banana farm in the Tully Valley. Biosecurity Queensland (BQ) has advised the Australian Banana Growers’ Council (ABGC) that samples taken from suspect plants have returned positive results from diagnostic testing known as…
Dear GrowersThe ABGC would like to advise that a new detection of Panama TR4 has been found on a banana farm in the Tully Valley. Biosecurity Queensland (BQ) today notified that samples taken from suspect plants had returned positive PCR results.As these are the first plants…
Department of Industry, Tourism and Trade | NT Farmers | ABGC Banana freckle has been detected at a rural residential property in the Northern Territory’s Top End. The Department of Industry, Tourism and Trade confirmed the sequencing results from an interstate laboratory yesterday afternoon. Banana freckle is a…
Peter (left) and Dan Molenaar By Sonia CampbellGrowers in northern New South Wales and the mid-North coast continue to recover from extreme flooding which caused devastation across communities in March. The catastrophic weather event left a path of destruction, with growers living in and around flood-ravaged…
A $9.8 million research project has been launched to develop TR4 resistant varieties of Cavendish and Goldfinger bananas.The project is being jointly delivered by Brisbane-based Queensland University of Technology and Hort Innovation and aims to develop resistant banana varieties using gene-editing techniques.QUT project lead, Distinguished…