Fight banana leaf bug with the right fungicide:Research has found that copper can effectively battle the leaf-spot disease in the flowering plants

摘要

SIGATOKA IS A classic crop debilitating disease causing rapid destruction of leaf photosynthesis and accompanying catastrophic reductions in bunch weight and quality of bananas. Genomics of the genus Musa (banana) is extremely complex but as a generalrule desert bananas (AAA genome) are more susceptible than plantain bananas (AAB genome) and vegetable bananas (ABB genome). All are essentially susceptible to severe damage by Mycosphaerella fijiensis (black Sigatoka).Copper fungicide has travelled the complete circle in the control of Sigatoka diseases of banana. Yellow Sigatoka (leaf spot) is caused by longer established Mycosphaerella musicola but the more recent found black Sigatoka (black leaf streak) disease caused by M. fijiensis is more aggressive and damaging.