Fine-tuning banana Xanthomonas wilt control options over the past decade in East and Central Africa
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Date
2014
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European journal of plant pathology
Abstract
Xanthomonas wilt, caused by Xanthomonas
campestris pv. musacearum has, since 2001, become
the most important and widespread disease of Musa in
East and Central Africa. Over the past decade, new
research findings and especially feedback from smallscale
farmers have helped in fine-tuning Xanthomonas
wilt control options. During the initial years of the
Xanthomonas wilt epidemic in East Africa, the complete
uprooting of diseased mats and the burning or
burying of plant debris was advocated as part of a
control package which included the use of clean garden
tools and early removal of male buds to prevent insect
vector transmission. Uprooting a complete mat (i.e. the
mother plant and a varying number of lateral shoots) is
understandably time-consuming and labour intensive
and becomes very cumbersome when a large number
of diseased mats have to be removed. Recent research
findings suggest that Xcm bacteria do not colonize all
lateral shoots (i.e. incomplete systemicity occurs) and
even when present that this does not necessarily lead to
symptom expression and disease.
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Clean tools, Collective action, Early de-budding, Escape variety, Resistance, Single diseased stem removal
Citation
Blomme, G., Jacobsen, K., Ocimati, W., Beed, F., Ntamwira, J., Sivirihauma, C., ... & Karamura, E. (2014). Fine-tuning banana Xanthomonas wilt control options over the past decade in East and Central Africa. European journal of plant pathology, 139(2), 271-287. DOI 10.1007/s10658-014-0402-0