Category: Australian Bananas Magazine
Leaning into the Challenge – Panama TR4
For more than two years, the Australian banana industry has held its collective breath, hoping heavily that Panama Tropical Race 4 would remain at bay, following Queensland’s first TR4 detection in March 2015. But after confirmation of a second farm incursion in the far north’s…
Understanding the movement of Fusarium within a banana plant
By Noeleen Warman Panama disease, caused by the fungus Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense, threatens Australia’s banana production. Knowing how the fungus moves through the banana plant and when and where it produces spores, is an important component in containing and managing the disease, as there…
Next Generation look outside the box
By Tegan Kukulies, DAF Over the past year the young banana growers which form the NextGen group have been looking to other horticultural industries and manufacturing to draw inspiration and drive innovation in their businesses. While visiting these different operations it has become quickly became…
Banana Freckle Update
By Dr Rosie Godwin The National Banana Freckle Eradication program (NBFEP) recently entered the final phase of the eradication program: Phase four – Assessment of proof of freedom. Banana Freckle (Phyllosticta cavendishii) was detected in Northern Territory (NT) in 2013 and the current national response…