Bacterial diseases of bananas and enset: current state of knowledge and integrated approaches toward sustainable management

G Blomme, M Dita, KS Jacobsen… - Frontiers in plant …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Bacterial diseases of bananas and enset have not received, until recently, an equal amount
of attention compared to other major threats to banana production such as the fungal …

Xanthomonas bacteriophages: a review of their biology and biocontrol applications in agriculture

R Nakayinga, A Makumi, V Tumuhaise, W Tinzaara - BMC microbiology, 2021 - Springer
Phytopathogenic bacteria are economically important because they affect crop yields and
threaten the livelihoods of farmers worldwide. The genus Xanthomonas is particularly …

Xanthomonas wilt: a threat to banana production in East and Central Africa

L Tripathi, M Mwangi, S Abele, V Aritua… - Plant …, 2009 - Am Phytopath Society
Bananas are important in the Great Lakes region, not only in Uganda, but also in adjacent
countries, where they are both a food security and a cash crop (17). Food security studies …

Emerging infectious diseases of crop plants in developing countries: impact on agriculture and socio-economic consequences

M Vurro, B Bonciani, G Vannacci - Food security, 2010 - Springer
Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) caused by plant pathogens can develop into
unexpected and very serious epidemics, owing to the influence of various characteristics of …

Precision genetics tools for genetic improvement of banana

JN Tripathi, VO Ntui, L Tripathi - The Plant Genome, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Banana is an important food security crop for millions of people in the tropics but it faces
challenges from diseases and pests. Traditional breeding methods have limitations …

Application of CRISPR/Cas-based gene-editing for developing better banana

L Tripathi, VO Ntui, JN Tripathi - Frontiers in Bioengineering and …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Banana (Musa spp.), including plantain, is one of the major staple food and cash crops
grown in over 140 countries in the subtropics and tropics, with around 153 million tons …

[HTML][HTML] Xanthomonas Wilt of Banana (BXW) in Central Africa: Opportunities, challenges, and pathways for citizen science and ICT-based control and prevention …

M McCampbell, M Schut, I Van den Bergh… - … -Wageningen Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Xanthomonas Wilt of Banana (BXW) is a complex problem in the African Great
Lakes Region that is affecting the livelihoods of millions of smallholder farmers. Since the …

Fine-tuning banana Xanthomonas wilt control options over the past decade in East and Central Africa

G Blomme, K Jacobsen, W Ocimati, F Beed… - European journal of …, 2014 - Springer
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 …

Integrated plant disease management in developing countries

WE Khoury, K Makkouk - Journal of Plant Pathology, 2010 - JSTOR
Plant diseases are considered an important biotic constraint, which leads to significant crop
losses worldwide. Integrated disease management (IDM), which combines biological …

Xanthomonas campestris pv. musacearum: a major constraint to banana, plantain and enset production in central and east Africa over the past decade

V Nakato, G Mahuku, T Coutinho - Molecular plant pathology, 2017 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Summary Taxonomy Bacteria; Phylum Proteobacteria; Class Gammaproteobacteria; Order
Xanthomonadales; Family Xanthomonadaceae; Genus Xanthomonas; currently classified as …